January stJi, 1904.?^ PROCEEDINGS. ix 



Professor Edmund Knecht, Ph.D., read a paper entitled, 

 "An Interesting Reaction of Copper Salts." 



Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., read a paper 

 entitled, *' On the Electrolytic Method for the Detection 

 and Approximate Estimation of Minute Quantities of 

 Arsenic in Malt, Beer, and Food Stuffs." 



General Meeting, January 5th, 1904. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Mr. E. H. Langdon, Merchant, and Mr. A. D. Darbishire, 

 B.A., Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator of Zoology in the" 

 University of Manchester, were elected ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 5th, 1904. 



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. The following were among the recent acces- 

 sions to the Society's library : — " Vogul Nepkoltesi Gyujtemeny,'^ 

 I Kotet et Kiegeszito fiizet. (8vo., Budapest, 1902.) [Collection of 

 Popular Poems of the Voguls. Fasc. I. and Suppl.], presented by 

 the Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia; ^^Topographical Maps of 

 Assiniboia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Banff, and Lake Louise " 

 (Ottawa, 1903), presented by the Department of the Interior of 

 Canada ; " Original Papers," by the late John Hopkinson. Ed. by 

 B. Hopkinson. 2 vols. (8vo, Cambridge, 1901), presented by 

 the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press ; " Bibliographia 

 Geological' Ser. A. Tome vii. and Ser. B. Tome vi. (8vo., 

 Bruxelles, 1903), purchased; '■'' British Tyroglyphidce," vol. 2,' 



