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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Dec. 1, 



its lines ; nor did cobalt, even when a bar of cobalt was used as the 

 positive pole. 



Tin, palladium, and platinum gave no reversals. 



It is worthy of remark in regard to the difficulty of obtaining sub- 

 stances chemically pure, that we found that carbon poles which had 

 been for some hours ignited in a current of chlorine and further in- 

 tensely heated in the arc, while chlorine was passed through perfora- 

 tions down their axes, still showed in the arc, of course without any 

 crucible being employed, a multitude of lines, amongst which the so- 

 called carbon lines and those of calcium and iron were conspicuous. 



December 1, 1879. 

 ANNIVERSARY MEETING. 

 THE PRESIDENT in the Chair. 



Mr. Perkin, for the Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts, on the 

 part of the Society, reported that the total receipts during the past 

 year, including a balance of £916 14s. 7d., carried from the preceding 

 year, amount to £9,048 5s. Id., and that the total expenditure in the 

 same period, including purchase of stock, amounts to £7,783 18s. 5d., 

 leaving a balance at the Banker's of £1,222 12s., and £41 14s. 8d. in 

 the hands of the Treasurer. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the Treasurer and Auditors. 



The Secretary read the following Lists : — 



Fellows deceased since the last Anniversary. 

 On the Home List. 



Peyton Blakiston, M.D. 

 Edward Blore, LL.D., F.S.A. 

 €harles Brooke, M.A., ^.R.C.S. 

 John Allan Broun. 

 George William Callender, 



F.R.C.S. 

 James Robert Christie. 

 W. Kingdon Clifford, M.A. 

 George William Drory. 



Isaac Fletcher, F.R.A.S. 

 William Froude, M.A., M.I.C.E. 

 A. H. Garrod, M.A. 

 John Benjamin, Baron Heath, 

 F.S.A. 



Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.B., D.C.L., 



F.R.A.S. 

 Rev. Philip Kelland, M.A., 



V.P.R.S.E., F.C.P.S. 



