JSfovember ji'd, /poj.] PROCEEDINGS. v 



Ordinary Meeting, November 3rd, 1903. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 



in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. Among the recent donations to the 

 Society's Library were the following : — " Uniersuchung ilber die 

 Eigenbewegung von Sternen in der Zone 6^° — 70° Nordlicher 

 Declination" von J. H. Schroeter (4to., Christiania, [1903]), 

 presented by I'Observatoire de Christiania ; " Bacteria and the 

 Nitrogen Problem" (8vo., Washington, (1902)), and " The Con- 

 tamination of Public Water Supplies by Alga'''' (8vo., Washington, 

 (1902)), by G. T. Moore, presented by the Author ; " Lancashire 

 Pipe Rolls and Early Charters'''' (4to., Liverpool, 1902), and 

 "^ History of the Parish of North Meols" (4to., Liverpool, 1903), 

 ib.y W. Farrer, presented by the author. 



A collection of wind-worn pebbles of quartz and quartzite 

 from an old raised beach near Waverley, North Island, New 

 Zealand, together with photographs, was exhibited by the 

 President. They have been cut by the sand driven by the wind 

 into the characteristic Dreikanter, and might easily be 

 mistaken for the work of the hand of man. The direction of 

 the prevalent winds is shown by the amount of work done on 

 each side or facet, the texture of the wind-worn being quite 

 different from that of the wave-worn surfaces. 



The collection and the photographs were made by Lady 

 Constance Knox in 1900, and were afterwards given by her to 

 the Manchester Museum, Owens College. 



Mr. H. E. ScHMiTZ, M.A., B.Sc, read a paper entitled, 

 " On a Method of Ice Calorimetry." 



General Meeting, November 17th, 1903. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Charles W. E. Leigh, Deputy Librarian, The Owens 

 College; and Mr. J. H. W. Worthington, B.A., were elected 

 ordinary members of the Society. 



