﻿xxviii PROCEEDINGS. [February 2isf, 1905. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 21st, 1905. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Mr. R. S. Hutton, M.Sc., exhibited and described several 

 forms of electrically-heated carbon tube furnaces, which he has 

 designed in collaboration with Mr. W. H. Patterson, B.Sc. 

 These furnaces are intended for experimental work, and not only 

 enable extremely high temperatures to be attained, but with 

 them the temperature, being under perfect control, can be kept 

 steady at any value up to the maximum. It is hoped that the 

 simple construction of the furnace will render possible a more 

 detailed study of the effects of high temperature on chemical 

 and physical changes than has yet been carried out and thus 

 open up a wide field of research. 



Special Meeting, February 28th, 1905. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The President said the meeting was held to present the 

 Wilde Medal awarded during this session, and to hear the Wilde 

 Lecture. 



In awarding the Wilde Medal for T905 to Dr. Lapworth, 

 F.R.S., LL.D., Professor of Geology and Geography in the 

 University of Birmingham, the Council marks its sense of the 

 value of his services in advancing knowledge by numerous con- 

 tributions to the Ancient History of the Earth during the last 35 

 years. These contributions have already been recognised by 

 the Geological Society of London in 1S87 by the award of the 

 Bigsby Medal, and in 1899 by the Wollaston Medal, and by 



