274 [Nov. 27, 



November 27, 1862. 

 Major-General SABINE, President, in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair 

 of the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Council and 

 Officers recommended for election was read as follows : 



President. Major-General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer.- William Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D. 



Se retaries / William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 



X George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L. 



Foreign Secretary. William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A. 

 Other Members of the Council. Benjamin Guy Babington, M.D. ; 

 George Bowdler Buckton, Esq. ; William Benjamin Carpenter, M.D. ; 

 Warren De la Rue, Esq., Ph.D. ; Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, 

 Bart,; Captain Douglas Galton, R.E.; Robert Godwin-Austen, Esq. . 

 Joseph Henry Green, D.C.L. ; Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D. ; John 

 Lubbock, Esq.; Professor James 'Clerk Maxwell, M.A. ; Professor 

 Richard Owen, D.C.L., LL.D. ; Professor Henry J. Stephen Smith, 

 M.A. ; Professor James Joseph Sylvester, M.A. ; Professor Charles 

 Wheatstone, D.C.L. ; Rev. Robert Willis, M.A. 



Mr. George Bentham and Captain Alexander Ross Clarke, R.E., 

 were admitted into the Society. 



The following communications were read : 



I. "Dynamical Problems regarding Elastic Spheroidal Shells 

 and Spheroids of Incompressible Liquid/' By Professor 

 WILLIAM THOMSON, F.R.S. Received August 22, 1862. 



(Abstract.) 



In this paper the deformation of a homogeneous elastic solid 

 bounded by two surfaces which are concentric spherical surfaces 

 when the solid is free from strain, is investigated under each of the 

 two following conditions : 



I. The displacement of every point of each surface is given. 



