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Notice from the Chair of Anniversary Meeting. [Nov. 19, 



XV. " Supplementary Note on a Spectrum of a Solar Prominence/'' 

 By J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.A.S., in a Letter to the Secretary. 

 Communicated by Dr. Sharpey, Sec. U.S. Received November 

 5, 1868. 



Sir, — I have the honour, in continuation of my letter of the 20th 

 ultimo, to inform you that I have this morning obtained evidence that 

 the solar prominences are merely the expansion, in certain regions, of an 

 envelope which surrounds the sun on all sides. I may add that other 

 facts observed seem to point out that we may shortly be in a position to 

 determine the temperature of these circumsolar regions. 



J. Norman Lockyer. 



XVI. <s Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun." — No. II. By J. 

 Norman Lockyer, F.R. A. S. Communicated by Dr. Sharpey, 

 Sec. R.S. Received November 19, 1868. 



The reading of this Paper was commenced. 



November 26, 1868, 



Lieut.-General SABINE, President, in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of the 

 ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council proposed 

 for election was read as follows : — 



Presiclen t .—Lieut.-General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer.— William Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D. 



f William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 

 Secretaries.— j George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary '.—Prof. William Hallows Miller, M.A., LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — Frederick Augustus Abel, Esq. ; 

 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., M.A. ; William Benjamin Carpenter, 

 M.D. ; J. Lockhart Clarke, Esq. ; Frederick Currey, Esq., M.A. ; Warren 

 Be La Rue, Esq., Ph.D. ; Sir William Fergusson, Bart. ; William Henry 

 Flower, Esq. ; Capt. Douglas Galton, C.B. ; John Peter Gassiot, Esq. ; 

 John Hawkshaw, Esq. ; John Marshall, Esq. ; Joseph Prestwich, Esq. ; 

 George Henry Richards, Capt. R.N. ; Archibald Smith, Esq., M.A. ; 

 Lieut.-Col. Alexander Strange. 



Lieut. -Col. Cameron, Mr. Crofton, Mr. Griess, and the Rev. Dr. 

 Tristram were admitted into the Society. 



The following communications were read :— 



