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March 3, 1859. 



Sir BENJAMIN C. BRODIE, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, the Secretary read the following 

 list of Candidates for election into the Society : 



Frederick Augustus Abel, Esq. 

 Somerville Scott Alison, M.D. 

 Charles Spence Bate, Esq. 

 Henry Foster Baxter, Esq. 

 Samuel Husbands Beckles, Esq. 

 Thomas William Burr, Esq. 

 Frederick Grace Calvert, Esq. 

 Henry J. Carter, Esq. 

 William White Cooper, Esq. 

 Richard Cull, Esq. 

 Thomas Rowe Edmonds, Esq. 



Alexander John Ellis, Esq. 



S. W. Fullom; Esq. 



Douglas Galton, Capt. R.E. 



Samuel Gurney, Esq. 



William Bird Herapath, M.D. 



George Murray Humphry, M.B. 



Thomas Sterry Hunt, Esq. 



Waller Augustus Lewis, M.D. 



John Denis Macdonald, Esq. 



David Macloughlin, M.D. 



Henry Maudslay, Esq. 



The Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A. 



Robert William Mylne, Esq. 



William Odling, Esq. 



Robert Patterson, Esq. 



John Penn, Esq. 



Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



Edward Smith, M.D. 



Henry Ward, Capt. R.E. 



Thomas Watson, M.D. 



Col. Frederick Eardley Wilmot, 



R.A. 



Bennet Woodcroft, Esq. 

 Col. William Yolland, R.E. 



The following communications were read : 



I. " On an Experiment in which the Stratifications in Electrical 

 Discharges are destroyed by an interruption of the Second- 

 ary Circuit." By J. P. GASSIOT, Esq., F.R.S. Received 

 February 17, 1859. 



The author having referred to his former Papers*, and to Mr. 

 Grove's view of the phenomenon in question, performed an experi- 

 ment to demonstrate the fact stated in the title of the present com- 

 munication. 



* Philosophical Transactions, 1858, and Proceedings, January 13, 1859. 



