Proceedings. 357 



December 17, 1896. 



Sir JOSEPH LISTEE, Bart., F.R.C.S., D.C.L., President, in the 



Chair. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



The Right Hon. Sir John Eldon Gorst, a member of Her Majesty's 

 Most Honourable Privy Council, was balloted for and elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " On the Dielectric Constant of Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Air." 

 By J. A. FLEMING, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Elec- 

 trical Engineering in University College, London, and 

 JAMES DEWAR, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Fullerian Professor of 

 Chemistry in the Royal Institution, &c. 



II. " On the Effect of Pressure in the surrounding Gas on the 

 Temperature of the Crater of an Electric Arc. Correction of 

 Results in former Paper." By W. E. WILSON, F.R.S., and 

 G. F. FITZGERALD, F.R.S. 



III. " Influence of Alterations of Temperature upon the Electrotonic 



Currents of Medullated Nerve." By AUGUSTUS W. WALLER, 

 M.D., F.R.S. 



IV. " On Subjective Colour Phenomena attending sudden Changes 



of Illumination." By SHELFORD BIDWELL, M.A., LL.B., F.R.S. 



Y. " On the Occurrence of Gallium in the Clay-ironstone of the 

 Cleveland District of Yorkshire." By W. N. HARTLEY, F.R.S., 

 and H. RAMAGE. 



VI. " On some Recent Investigations in connection with the Electro- 

 deposition of Metals." By J. C. GRAHAM. 



The Society adjourned over the Christmas Recess to Thursday, 

 January 21, 1897. 



