xvi Proceedings. [November 27th, 1906. 



General Meeting, November 27th, 1906. 

 Professor A. Schuster, Sc.D., Ph.D , F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Norman Smith, D.Sc, Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry 

 in the Manchester University, and Mr. Thomas Alfred Coward, 

 F.Z.S., Brentwood, Bozvdon, were elected ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 27th, 1906. 

 Professor A. Schuster, Sc.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 donations to the Society's Library: — " De Uitvinding der 

 Verrekifkers," door C. de Waard Jr. (8vo., 's-Gravenhage, 1906), 

 presented by the Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen ; 

 " Le Opere di Galileo Galilei" ed. naz., vols. 17, 18 (4to., Firenze, 

 1906), presented by the R. Ministero della Istruzione Pubblica; 

 " A Catalogue of the Aburi Gardens" by A. E. Evans (8vo, 

 London, 1906), presented by the Liverpool University Institute 

 of Commercial Research in the Tropics; " Geschiedenis der 

 systematische Mineralogie," door E. H. M. Beekman (8vo., Den 

 Haag, [1906]), presented by the Technische Hoogeschool te Delft; 

 "Reduction of Greenwich Meteorological Observations," pt. 4 (4to., 

 Edinburgh, 1906), " Catalogue of Stars for the Equinox iooo'O 

 from Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good 

 Hope, igoo-1004" (4to., Edinburgh, 1906), and '•'■Catalogue of 

 8.560 Astrographic Standard Stars... for the Equinox 1000 (4to., 

 London, 1906), presented by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 



Henry Wilde, D.Sc, D.C.L., F.R.S., read a paper 

 entitled " On some Points of Chemical Philosophy in- 

 volved in the Discovery of Radium and the Properties 

 of its Combinations." 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., read a paper written 

 in conjunction with Mr. R. Standen, entitled " On a Collection 



