MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 7th, 1890. 



Professor OsBORNE Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., RR.S., 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter from the President apologising for his inability 

 to be present at the opening meeting was read. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the table. 



Dr. BOTTOMLEY mentioned the recent remarkable and 

 unexpected discovery by Mr. Ludwig Mond, Dr. C. Langer, 

 and Dr. F. Quincke, of a direct combination of nickel and 

 carbonic oxide, forming a colourless liquid, and a conversa- 

 tion ensued, in which Mr. W. Thomson and Professor H. B. 

 Dixon took part, attention being directed to the proba- 

 bility that the discovery would provide a useful method of 

 separating nickel from cobalt. 



Professor REYNOLDS referred to Professor Ewing's 

 demonstration at the recent meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at Leeds, by means of a working model, that Weber's 

 theory would explain the phenomena of electro-magnetism. 



Professor H. B. DixON, F.R.S., read a paper by himself 

 and Mr. J. A. Harker "On the rate of explosion of 

 hydrogen and chlorine in the dry and the moist state." 

 The paper described experiments in continuation of re- 

 searches dealt with in a memoir read before the Society 



