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trary to Kant's and Schopenhauer's views, matter is both as 

 real and as unreal as time and space. 



Mr. Stromeyer also dealt with the fourth dimension and 

 showed that it was not a real one. 



The reading of Dr. W. J. Walker's paper was deferred to the 

 next Ordinary Meeting of the Society. 



General Meeting, November 2nd, 1920. 

 Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E-, F.C.S. {Vice-President), 



in the Chair. 

 Mr. Robert George Fargher, M.Sc, Head of the Department of 

 Organic Chemistry, The British Cotton Industry Research Association, 

 Shirley Institute, Didsbury; Mr. L. J. Mordell, B.A., Lecturer in 

 Mathematics, The College of Technology, Manchester; Mr. John Alfred 

 Clayton, B.Sc. (Vict,), Assistant Master, Central High School for Boys, 

 Whitworth Street, Manchester ; Professor Theodore George Bentley 

 Osborn, D.Sc., Professor of Botany in the University of Adelaide, 

 South Australia, The University, Manchester; Dr. Douglas H. Clibbens, 

 B.Sc, c/o The British Cotton Industry Research Association, Shirley 

 Institue, East Didsbury. Manchester; and Mr. Henry Cardwell, M.A., 

 LL.B.. Solicitor, 50, Alexandra Road South, Manchester, S.W.; were 

 elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 2nd, 1920. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S. (Vice-President), 

 followed by Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. (President), 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was passed to the donors of the books upon 

 the table. 



Dr. W. J. Walker, B.Sc, A.Mem.Inst.C.E., read a paper 

 entitled "The Polytropic Curve and its Relation to 

 Thermodynamic Efficiency (with a Note on the Theory 

 of the Uniflow Steam Engine)." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Mr. W. H. Pearson, M.Sc, A.L.S., read a paper entitled 

 " Notes on a Collection of Hepatics from the Cameroons, 

 West Coast of Africa." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Extraordinary General Meeting, November 16th, 1920. 

 Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. (President), in the 



Chair. 

 Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.L.S., was elected an 

 Ordinary Member of Council. 



