58 Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 21st, 1896. 

 Henry Wilde, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 of the books upon the table. 



Professor Horace Lamb, F.R.S., called attention to a 

 peculiar spinning property of Neolithic flint celts, or axes, 

 the implement readily spinning clock-wise on a plate of 

 glass, but refusing to spin in the reverse direction. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., attributed the 

 phenomenon to the fact that the celts were chipped 

 with the right hand, and had therefore a bias, an 

 explanation which Professor Lamb confirmed. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, F.R.S., exhibited an oil 

 portrait of Dalton, the history of which is unknown. 



Mr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S. (the chair being taken 

 meanwhile by Dr. Schunck, F.R.S. ), read a paper on 

 the " Indefinite Quantitative Relations of the Physical 

 and Chemical Forces." 



