I. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The discussion was participated in by Messrs. Brach,. 

 Thos, Poole, Churchill Tucker, J. Henderson, A. B. 

 Hector, the Chairman, and Dr. Greig-Smith, the Hon. Sec. 



May Uth, 1917. 



Mr. Loxley Meggitt in the Chair. 



A letter was read from the Hon. Secretaries of the Society 

 announcing that a resolution had been passed by the Council 

 and forwarded to the Warden of the University. It ran as 

 follows : — " In view of the great importance of the funda- 

 mental sciences of Physics and Chemistry, the Royal 

 Society asks that, in the matriculation examinations, special 

 encouragement may be given by the Senate of the Uni- 

 versity to students to take up the study of these subjects, 

 and also suggests that, if possible, an entrance scholarship 

 be granted for science at matriculation." 



Mr. W. T. Willington was nominated as chairman of the 

 Section for the coming year, and was unanimously elected. 

 It was proposed that Dr. Greig-Smith be Hon. Sec. He 

 was duly elected. 



A discussion upon Industrial Efficiency was opened by 

 Mr. James Henderson and contributed to by Messrs. 

 Wallace Nelson, Thos. Poole, A. E. Stephen, James 

 Nangle, S. H. Smith, G. L. Hudson, Edward Stedman, 

 James Stedman, A. B. Hector. Dr. R. K. Murphy, the 

 Chairman and Hon. Secretary. 



It was decided to form a committee to consider the future 

 conduct of the Section, the committee to report to the 

 Section. The following gentlemen were duly proposed, 

 seconded, and elected as members of this special com- 

 mittee:— Messrs. Loxley Meggitt, J. Nangle, S. H. Smith,. 

 A. B. Hector, S. E. Sibley, R. T. Baker, Dr. R. K. 

 Murphy with the Chairman and Hon. Secretary. 



