Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 15th, 1895. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 of the books upon the table. 



Mr. W. H. Johnson, B.Sc, exhibited some filaments 

 of tin sent down to the coast of Africa from the interior, 

 and received thence. This tin is the first which is known 

 to have been received from the African interior. A dis- 

 cussion ensued as to the possibility of Africa having been 

 a source of tin supply in prehistoric times for the bronze 

 implements then in use, in which Professor H. B. Dixon, 

 F.R.S., Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., and others 

 took part. 



Mr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., read a supplementary note 

 on " The place of Helium in the Natural Classification of 

 the Elementary Substances." 



Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., M.Sc, Honorary Librarian, 

 gave an account of the progresss of the rearrangement of 

 the Society's library under the provisions of the Wilde 

 endowment. The library is peculiarly rich in the serial 

 publications of academies and learned societies for very 

 many years past, and for these, in consideration of the 

 variety of the subjects treated, an alphabetical classifica- 

 tion according to countries and towns has been adopted. 



Mr. Charles L. Barnes, M.A., read a paper on 

 " Science in Early England," containing an account of 

 the writings of philosophers in this country from the 

 seventh to the thirteenth centuries inclusive, and termi- 

 nating with the works of Roger Bacon. 



