1 66 Proceedings. 



General Meeting, February 18th, 1890. 



Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Thomas Harker, of Manchester, was elected an 

 ordinary member. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 18th, 1890. 



Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The President appointed Mr. Ralph Holmes, B.A., 

 and Mr. Francis Jones, F.R.S.E., Auditors of the Society's 

 accounts for the current session. 



A discussion was started on Professsor Hertz's experi- 

 ments on electric oscillations and their interpretation, and 

 Mr. W. H. Johnson spoke of the waste of power in the 

 ordinary methods of producing light. The President 

 expressed his opinion that, except for incidental expenses, 

 lighting by electricity neither need be dearer nor more 

 wasteful than any other mode of lighting. This was corn- 

 batted by Mr. W. H. JOHNSON and Mr. Julius Allmann, 

 who instanced the lighting of the Suez Canal by light 

 hydrocarbons as being much cheaper and more effective. 



The following obituary notice of the Society's late 

 honorary member, Dr. H. C. Buys Ballot, of Utrecht, Super- 

 intendent of the Royal Meteorological Institute of the 

 Netherlands, by Professor ARTHUR SCHUSTER, F.R.S., was 



