94 Proceedings. 



Mr. Brothers, F.R.A.S., called attention to the fact 

 that the planet Mercury was, for the time being, easily seen 

 after sunset, being near Venus. 



Mr. R. F. Gwyther, M.A., read a paper on "The 

 conditions securing the permanency of form of quantities 

 which express physical properties in a continuous medium." 



Mr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., read a paper on " The 

 evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent contraction 

 of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits." 



