with them on any such occasions. For the great majority of cases 

 no diflSculty need he anticipated, and we hope that it will become 

 the common practice of the Members to come here accompanied by 

 their wives and daughters, or their sweethearts if they are in the 

 happy stage of life indicated by that good old English expression, at 

 once to grace us by their presence and encourage us by their interest 

 in our work." 



Eeferring to the establishment of similar Associations, and to 

 the great importance and value of the objects of the proposed 

 Association, Mr. Beabrook ventured to predict for it a long and 

 prosperous career. The Eesolution was seconded by Mr. Lockhaet, 

 F.E.C.S., supported by Dr. Abmstbong, F.E.S., and unanimously 

 canied. 



Dr. Abmstrong moved the adoption of the Eules, which had 

 been prepared by the Provisional Committee, and Mr. Layers 

 seconded it. This was also carried unanimously ; as well as the 

 following list of Officers and Council, proposed by Mr. Layers and 

 seconded by Mr. Edwin Low : — 



President, — Mr. E. W. Beabrook. 



Treasurer, — Mr. James Vogan. 



Honorary Secretary, — Mr. H. W. Jackson. 



Council, — Mr. W. J. Allsup, Dr. H. E. Armstrong, 

 Mr. C. D. Dayies, Mr. Aethue Eopee. 



On the motion of Mr. Lockhaet, seconded by Eev. T. BeamleY, 

 thanks were voted to the Chairman for his conduct in the Chair. 



MAECH 5th. 



Mr. J. W. Waghorn, of the Eoyal Naval College, Greenwich, 

 gave a Lectm-e on the "Electiic Light." 



The Lecturer showed experimentally that a cuirent of electricity 

 is produced when two plates of different metals are placed in an 

 acid, and joined externally by a wire, as in the ordinary galvanic 

 battery ; or when, on the principle discovered by Faraday, a coil of 

 wire is caused to rotate between the poles of a powerful magnet. 

 The latter method, being the more economical, is always adopted in 



