xviii Proceedings. [Decembenith, 1906. 



" On the Structure of Syringodendron, the Bark of 



Sigillaria." 



General Meeting, January 15th, 1907. 



The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Charr. 



Mr. H. C H. Carpenter, M.A., Ph.D., Professor of 

 Metallurgy in the University of Manchester, was elected an 

 ordinary member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 15th, 1907. 



The President, Sir William H. Bailey, 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 

 accessions to the Society's Library : — " Special .Reports (of the 

 Department of Commerce and Labour, Washington). TJie Blind 

 and the Deaf, ipoo," (4to., Washington, 1906) presented by the 

 Bureau of the Census of Washington ; " Report on the Boundary 

 Survey betwetfi British Bechuanaland and German S. W. Africa" 

 executed by Lieut. -Col. Laffan...and others (fol., Berlin, 1906) 

 presented by the Cape of Good Hope Observatory; '■'■Astro- 

 graphic Catalogue igoo'O. Oxford Section Dec. + 24 to + 32 ..." 

 [prepared] under the direction of H. H. Turner... vol. 1, (4to., 

 Edinburgh, 1906) presented by the Oxford University Observa- 

 tory ; " Bibliographia Geological par M. Mourlon ...Ser. A, 

 tome ix. (8vo., Bruxelles, 1906) purchased ; " GutsJierrlich-baluer- 

 liche Verhdltnisse in der Ober-Lausiiz " ...von F. Moeschler (8vo., 

 Gorlitz, 1906), " Codex Diplomaticus Lusatiae Superioris hi..." 

 von Dr. R. Jecht, Hft. 2 (8vo. Gorlitz, 1906) presented by the 

 Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften. 



Mr. C. E. Stromeyer, M.Inst. C.E., read a paper entitled, 

 " The Grouping of the Chemical Elements." 



The reading of Mr. A. D. Darbishire's paper entitled. 

 " Some Tables for Explaining the Nature of Statistical 

 Correlation " was postponed until the next Meeting. 



