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March 3, 1864. 



Major-General SABINE, President, in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, the names of the Candidates for election 

 into the Society were read, as follows : — 



Alexander Armstrong, M.D. 

 William Baird, M.D. 

 Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B. 

 Henry Foster Baxter, Esq. 

 Sir Charles Tilston Bright. 

 WiUiam Brinton, M.D. 

 John Charles Bucknill, M.D. 

 Lieut.-Col. John Cameron, li.E. 

 T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. 

 The Hon. James Cockle, M.A. 

 Henry Dircks, Esq. 

 Alexander John Ellis, B.A. 

 John Evans, Esq. 

 William Henry Flower, Esq. 

 Sir Charles Fox. 

 George Gore, Esq. 

 George Robert Gray, Esq. 

 Thomas Grubb, Esq. 

 Henri Gueneau de Mussy, M.D. 

 William Augustus Guy, M.B. 

 George Harley, M.D. 

 Sir John Charles Dalrymple Hay, 

 Bart. 



Benjamin Hobson, M.B. 

 William Charles Hood, M.D. 



Fleeming Jenkin, Esq. 

 William Jenner, M.D. 

 Edmund C. Johnson, M.D. 

 Prof. Leone Levi. 

 Waller Augustus Lewis, M.B. 

 Sir Charles Locock, Bart., M.D. 

 Edward Joseph Lowe, Esq. 

 Tlie Hon. Thomas M'Combie. 

 Sir Joseph F. Olliffe, M.D. 

 George Wareing Ormerod, M.A. 

 Thomas Lambe Phipson, Esq. 

 John Russell Reynolds, M.D. 

 William Henry Leighton Russell, 

 B.A. 



William Sanders, Esq. 

 Col. William James Smythe, R.A. 

 Lieut.-Col. Alexander Strange. 

 Thomas Tate, Esq. 

 Charles Tomlinson, Esq. 

 George Charles Wallich, M.D. 

 Robert Warington, Esq. 

 Charles Wye Williams, Esq. 

 Nicholas Wood, Esq. 

 Henry Worms, Esq. 



The following communication was read :— 



" On the Spectra of Ignited Gases and Vapours, with especial regard 

 to the different Spectra of the same elementary gaseous sub- 

 stance." By Dr. Julius Plucker, of Bonn, For. Memb. R.S., 

 and Dr. S. W. Hittorf, of Munster. Received February 23, 

 1864. 



(xlbstract.) 



In order to obtain the spectra of the elementary bodies, we may employ 

 either flame or the electric current. The former is the more easily managed, 

 but its temperature is for the most part too low to volatilize the body to be 



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