186 Meetings held during the Session 1898 — 1899. 



The following Communications were made : 



1. Notes on the Inheritance of Variation in the Corolla of 

 Veronica Buxbaumii. By Mr W. Batbson and Miss D. F. M. Pertz. 



2. On the Anatomy of a supposed New Species of Ccenopsammia 

 from Lifu. By Mr J. Stanley Gardiner. 



February 20th, 1899. 



Mr J. Larmor, President, in the Chair. 



Professor H. Lamb, M.A. (Trinity College), Victoria University, 

 was elected a Fellow. 



The following Communications were made : 



1. A semi-inverse method of Solution of the equations of Elasticity. 

 By Dr C. Chree. 



2. On Change of independent Variables and the theory of 

 Cyclicants and Beciprocants. By Mr E. G. Gallop. 



3. On the Electro-chemical equivalent of Carbon. By Mr S. 

 Skinner. 



4. On the Ionization of a Gas by ' Entladungsstrahlen. ' By 

 Professor J. J. Thomson. 



March 6th, 1899. 

 Mr J. Larmor, President, in the Chair. 

 The following Communications were made : 



1. Notes on the Binney Collection of Carboniferous Plants. 

 I. Lepidophloios. By Mr A. C. Seward. 



2. A Note upon the way in which Bones break. By Dr Joseph 

 Griffiths. 



3. On the origin of Magneto-optic Potation. By Mr J. Larmoe. 



May 1st, 1899. 



At the Observatory. 



Mr J. Larmor, President, in the Chair. 



Sir Robert Ball gave a brief description of the Sheepshanks 

 Telescope, and the following Communication was made : 



Beflexion of Sound at a Parabola. By Bev. H. J. Sharpe. 



