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Dr. J. Monckman. Occluded Gases and [May 31, 



Revue Medico-Pharmaceutique. Annee 1. Nos. 1-3. 4to. Con- 

 stantinople 1888. The Editors. 



Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine. December, 1886. 8vo. 

 London. Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S. 



Three Autograph Letters of Sir Joseph Banks, P.R.S. 



Mr. J. W. L. Glaisher, F.R.S. 



May 28, 1888. 



Professor G. G. STOKES, D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



The Croonian Lecture — " TJeber die Entstehung der Vitalen 

 Bewegung " — was delivered by Professor W. Kuhne, of Heidelberg, 

 in the Theatre of the Royal Institution. 



[Publication deferred.] 

 May 31, 1888. 



Professor G. Gr. STOKES, D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered 

 for them. 



Mr! George King (elected 1887) was admitted into the Society. 



Pursuant to notice, Professors Edmond Becquerel, Hermann Kopp, 

 Eduard F. W. Pfluger, and Julius Sachs were balloted for and elected 

 Foreign Members of the Society. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " On the Effect of Occluded Gases on the Thermo-electric 

 Properties of Bodies, and on their Resistances ; also on the 

 Thermo-electric and other Properties of Graphite and Car- 

 bon." By James Monckman, D.Sc. Communicated by Pro- 

 fessor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S. Received May 1, 1888. 



" Le Roux has shown that when a notch is filed into a wire and 

 one side heated there is in general a thermo-electric current. He also 

 found that when two wires of the same metal, with flat ends, are 



