Proceedings. 287 



The following gentlemen were elected officers of the 

 Section for the ensuing year : — 



President: — J AMES BOTTOMLEY, B.A., D.Sc, F.C.S. 



Vice-Presidents :-Wm. Thomson, F.R.S. Ed., F.C.S., 

 F.I.C.; J. A. BENNION, M.A., Barrister-at-Law. 



Secretary : — T. W. Brownell, F.R.A.S. 



Treasurer: — John ANGELL, F.C.S., F.I.C. 



It was moved by Mr. J. A. BENNION, seconded by Mr. 

 Wm. Thomson, and resolved : — 



That Rule I. be altered so as to read : — " That the 

 object of the Section be the promotion of Physics and 

 Mathematics." 



The following constitute the Section : — 



Members: — John ANGELL, F.C.S., F.I.C. ; JAMES 

 Bottomley, B.A., D.Sc., F.C.S. ; T. W. Brownell, 

 F.R.A.S. ; F. J. Faraday, F.L.S, F.S.S. ; A. Hodgkinson, 

 M.B., D.Sc. ; Wm. Mather, M.P. ; Wm. Thomson, F.R.S. 

 Ed., F.C.S., F.I.C. Associate:—]. A. Bennion, M.A. 



\Physical and Mathematical Section?^ 



Ordinary Meeting, 30th April, 1890. 



James Bottomley, D.Sc, President of the Section, 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. BOTTOMLEY remarked on Professor Pickering's 

 paper on the Composition of Solutions, read before a recent 

 meeting of the Chemical Society, and expressed disagree- 

 ment from the Professor's mathematical treatment of the 

 subject. 



