March 22nd, 192 1.] Proceedings. xix. 



G. K. Davis is presenting The Chemical Trade Journal and 

 Chemical Engineer to the Society's library. 



The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution and The 

 Aeronautical Journal are no longer received for the library. 



Professor Miles Walker, M.A., D.Sc, M.Inst.E.E., read a 

 paper entitled " Some Chapters from the History of 

 English Spelling- and the Need of a New Chapter." 



This paper is printed in fnll in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, March 22nd, 1921. 



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. These included : — Kolloid Zeitschrijt, vols. 26, 27 

 (1 — 4 and 6) and 28 (1), and Kolloidchemische Beihefte, vols. 12 

 and 13 (1-2), presented by Mr. L. A. Fenn. 



Dr. W. M. Tattersall exhibited live specimens of Land 

 Leeches found at Piatt Fields, Fallowfield. Similar leeches 

 have only once previously been reported in this neighbourhood. 



Mr. Charles W. Duckworth, F.C.I.S., read the following 

 note : — 



Enclosed with an Indian letter which I received on February 

 23rd, 1921, are particulars of a meeting in Calcutta convened 

 for presentation of an address to Sir J. C. Bose, F.R.S. , after his 

 return from Europe. In the course of his reply, Sir J. C. Bose 

 said : ." Perhaps the most momentous incident of my visit was 

 that they all told me that my work had found acceptance in 

 England, Scandinavia and France, but had I the courage to face 

 the German physiologists, some of whose conclusions my work 

 had upset. My stay in Europe was drawing to a close, and I 

 had less than a week to spare. I therefore went to Berlin 

 without notice, and drove directly to the celebrated Physio- 

 logical Institute at Dalheim, presided over by the eminent and 

 veteran physiologist Haberlandt. I was received with marked 

 coolness and suspicion as having come from the Allied Coun- 

 tries ; the anti-foreign feeling was then at its highest. I only 

 asked for fair pla} r . Let all the leading scientists be invited, 

 and I would be ready to meet the shock of hostile criticisms. 

 A lecture was organized and a miracle happened, for in less 

 than 15 minutes the whole audience gave expression of their 

 warmest appreciation. So complete was the conversion from 

 scepticism that in his subsequent address Professor Haberlandt 

 declared that it was no mere accident that it should have been 



