250 Proceedings at the Meetings. 



February 2nd, 1903. 



In the Cavendish Laboratory. 



Dr Baker, President, in the Chair. 



The President proposed from the Chair, 



"That the Cambridge Philosophical Society desires to express 

 its sense of the great loss sustained by the University and the 

 Society in the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, to whom the 

 Society was bound by so many ties of obligation and reverence." 



This was seconded by Professor Thomson, and was carried 

 unanimously. 



The President then proposed, 



" That the Society do now adjourn as a mark of respect to his 

 memory." 



The Society then adjourned. 



February lQth, 1903. 



In the Cavendish Laboratory. 



Mr A. C. Seward, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following was elected a Fellow of the Society : 



G. B. Mathews, M.A., St John's College. 



The following Communications were made : 



1. On the dynamics of the Electric field. By J. J. Thomson, 

 M.A., Trinity College, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics. 



2. Rust-fungi and the Mycoplasm theory. By H. Marshall 

 Ward, Sc.D., Sidney Sussex College, Professor of Botany. 



3. On Radio-active Snow. By C. T. R. Wilson, M.A., Sidney 

 Sussex College. 



4. Note on the Slipperiness of Ice. By S. Skinner, M.A., Christ's 

 College. 



5. On the Rise of a Spinning Top. By E. G. Gallop, M.A., 

 Gonville and Caius College. 



6. On Automorphic Functions and the general theory of Algebraic 

 Curves. By H. W. Richmond, M.A., King's College. 



