Minutes of Proceedings. xix 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 Wednesday, March 28, 1888. 



Mr. W. H. Finlay, M.A., F.R.A.8., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. B. Lindley, M.A., LL.B., was balloted for, and duly elected 

 an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Dr. Grill described the various uses to which electricity was put 

 at the Royal Observatory, where the electric light has recently 

 been installed ; and the Members and their friends then proceeded 

 to inspect the dynamo and engine with which the electricity is 

 generated, the accumulators where it is stored, and the astronomical 

 instruments to which it has been applied for illuminating purposes, 

 viz. : Transit Circle, 7in. Equatorial, Great Indian Theodolite, Zenith 

 Telescope, Photographic Instrument, and the new Heliometer. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting . 



Wednesday, April 25, 1888. 



Mr. W. H. Finlay, M.A., F.R.A.S., President, in the Chair. 



Professor Gruthrie read a paper on " The Theory of the Distributioa 

 of Plants." 



Dr. Marloth and the President made some remarks upon the paper, 

 to which Prof. Guthrie replied and the meeting closed with a vote 

 of thanks to Prof. Guthrie for his paper. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting, 



Wednesday, May 30, 1888. 



Mr. W. H. Finlay, M.A., F.R.A.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following presents were announced and the thanks of the 



Society voted to the donors '.■ — 



Jahrbiicher der K. K. Central-Anstalt fiir Meteorologie unci 



Erdmagnetismus, 1886. ' 

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