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dominion over all. In future ages liis remains will fill the 

 bosom of tjie earth, and the traveller in some far distant 

 century will gaze with wonder and amazement at the fossil 

 relics of what was once Man. 



At the conclusion of the meeting, the President stated 

 that he had received the Transactions of the Natural His- 

 tory Societies of Rugby, Harrow, and Marlborough. He 

 remarked upon the good attendance at the Clifton College 

 meetings, as compared with that of other schools, and ex- 

 l^ressed a hope that members intending to give Papers would 

 endeavour, as far as possible, that they should be original 

 matter. 



A Ballot was then held, and W. Mogg, O.C., who had been 

 proposed and seconded at the previous meeting, was declared 

 to be duly elected a Corresponding Member. 



Present, 58 members and visitors. 



MEETING, December 17, 1870. 



The President in the Chair. 



This was the last meeting both of the Term and the Year, 

 and was held chiefly for the purpose of electing the OflBcers 

 for the ensuing Term, in 1871. Before this was done, W. J. 

 P. Wood read a paper, illustrated with experiments, upon 

 the ' Electric Telegraph.' 



Commencing with a few words on Telegraphy in general, 

 and on the telegraphs used by our forefathers, he showed 

 next how an Electric Telegraph, to be worked by Static 

 Electricity, was proposed soon after the invention of the 

 Erictional Machine. The effect of an electric current on the 

 Galvanometer, or suspended magnetic needle, was then ex- 

 plained, and illustrated experimentally. The separate parts 

 of an ordinary Cooke and Wheatstone's instrument were con- 

 sidered one by one, and details added as to their construction; 

 the different forms of the battery used on different lines 

 forming a distinct feature in the paper. One of the tele- 

 graphs placed on the lecture table was then removed into an 

 adjoining room, and a conversation carried on between the 



