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Ordinary Meeting, October 30th, 1906. 

 Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, F. R.S.E., communicated the following 

 papers by Mr. S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc, Naturalist to the 

 North-east Rhodesia Geodetic Survey : — 



"A Journey to North-east Rhodesia during 1904 

 and 1905," and " On a Collection of Birds from North- 

 east Rhodesia." 



A number of specimens of the skins of birds from the 

 Manchester Museum were exhibited. 



General Meeting, November 13th, 1906. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, M.Sc, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Kenneth Fisher, B.A. Oxon., Ph.D. Jena, Research 

 Student in the University of Manchester, The Lilacs, Timperley, 

 and Mr. David M. S. Watson, of the University of Manchester, 

 466, Moss Lane East, Manchester, were elected ordinary members 

 of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 13th, 1906. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, M.Sc, F.L.S , in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Mr. R. L. Taylor drew attention to the remarkable lumi- 

 nosity produced by the rubbing or knocking together of various 

 forms of silica. A correspondent in a local paper pointed this 



