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SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



[Feb. 3, 1 888. 



Kinninmont, Thomas Maben, John Nesbit, and John Bertram 

 Stephenson. 



Royal Meteorological Society. — At the annual general 

 meeting the following gentlemen were elected the Officers 

 and Council of the Society for the coming year : — President, 

 William Marcet, M.D., F.R.S., F.C.S. ; Vice-Presidents, 

 Francis Campbell Bayard, LL.M., William Ellis, F.R.A.S., 

 Charles Harding, Richard Inwards, F.R.A.S. ; Treasurer, 

 Henry Perigal, F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S. ; Trustees, Hon. Francis 

 Albert Rollo Russell, M.A., Stephen William Silver, F.R.G.S. ; 

 Secretaries, George James Symons, F.R.S., John William 

 Tripe, M.D., M.R.C.P.Ed. ; Foreign Secretary, Robert Henry 

 Scott, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. ; Council, Hon. Ralph Aber- 

 cromby, Robert Andrew Allison, M.P., Edmund Douglas 

 Archibald, M.A., William Morris Beaufort, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S.; 

 Henry Francis Blanford, F.R.S., F.G.S., Arthur Brewin, 

 George Chatterton, M.A., M.Inst.C.E., William Henry Dines, 

 B.A., Henry Storks Eaton, M.A., Baldwin Latham, M.Inst.C.E., 

 F.G.S., Edward Mawley, F.R.H.S!, Charles Theodore 

 Wilhams, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. 



DIARY FOR NEXT WEEK. 



Monday, Feb. 6. — Camera Club, at 8 p.m. — Conversazione. 



Victoria Institute, at 8 p.m.— Paper by M. 

 Maspero, or Mr. S. T. Klein, F.L.S. 



Aristotelian Society, at 8 p.m. — Wundfs 

 Theory of Apperception ; Mr. J. S. Mann. 



London Institution, at 5 p.m. — The Asmo- 

 nsans ; Rev. William Benbam, B.D. 



Royal Institution, at 5 p.m. — General 

 Monthly Meeting. 



Society of Chemical Industry. — The Alka- 

 loids, a Review of the Synthetic Methods of 

 Preparing '''Closed Chain"'' Azo-carhon 

 Compaiiuds ; Dr. H. E. Armstrong, F.R.S. 



Society of Engineers, at 7.30 ^.xa.— Inaugu- 

 ral Address ; Mr. Arthur T. Walroisley. 

 Tuesday, Feb. 7. — Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Before and 

 After Darwin ; Professor G. J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S. 



Society of Biblical Archreology, at 8 p.m. — 

 Pro7nominal Forms in Egyptian, their 

 Relation to Se?nitic ; Mr. P. le P. Renouf. 

 Accountof the Raising of the Two Colossal 

 Statites of Rameses II., at Memphis; 

 Major A. II. Bagnold, R.E. 

 Wednesday, Feb. 8. — Royal Micioscopical Society, at 8 p.m. — 

 Annual General Meeting. President's 

 Address. 



Sheffield Pharmaceutical and Chemical 

 Socitiy. ^The Present Position of Toxi- 

 cology ; Mr. J. O. Arnold, F.C.S. 

 Thursday, Fib, 9. — London Institution, at 6 p.m. — Primitive 

 Natural History ; Professor G. J. 

 Romanes, F.R.S. 



Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Early Secular 

 Choral Music ; Proftssor C. H. H. Pairy. 



Society of Telegraph Engineers and Elec- 

 tricians, at 8 p.m. Edinburgh Archi- 

 tectural Association. — The Mediceval 

 Monastery, its Place in the History of 

 Architecture ; Professor G. Baldwin 

 Brown. 



Mathematical Society, at 8 p.m. — On the 

 Volume Generated by a Vongruency of 

 Lines ; Mr. R. A. Roberts. Vibtations 

 of an Elastic Spherical Shell Containing a 

 Given Mass of Liquid; Mr. A. E. H. 

 Love. Isocelians ; Mr. R. Tucker, 

 Physical Society, at 3 p.m: — Annual General 

 Meeting. On the Limit of Refraction in 

 Relation to Tempera ure at.d Chemical 

 Composition ; Mr. T. Pelham Dale. 

 Friday, Feb, 10, —Royal Institution, at 9 p.m. — Safety Lamps 

 in Collieries ; Mr. W, H. Preece, 

 Royal United Service Institution, at 3 p.m. 

 — The Practical Value of the Kriegspiel ; 

 Captain H. Spencer Wilkinson, 

 Saturday, Feb. 11.— Royal Institution, at 3 p.m. — Experimental 

 Optics ; Lord Rayleigh. 



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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 



August. 

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 An Elementary Treatise on Light and Heat. By the Rev. 



F. W. Aveling, M.A., B.Sc. London: Relfe, Bros. 



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 Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, and the Journal 



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Allen. London : Bailliere, Tindall and Cox. 

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 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 



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