448 Proceedings and List of Officers and Council nominated. 



It was found impracticable to get accurately consistent results in 

 the case of helium. Some cause, the nature of which has not been 

 traced, made the results differ with different samples of the gas, although 

 in each case care had been taken with the purification. The helium 

 curve, however, shows very peculiar features, the spark potential being, 

 for a wide range of pressure in the neighbourhood of the minimum, 

 almost independent of the pressure. 



November 23, 1899. 

 The LORD LISTER, F.R.C.S., D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



Professor Edward Divers (elected 1885) was admitted into the 

 Society. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice of the ensuing Anniversary 

 Meeting was given from the Chair, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election was read as follows : — 



President— Lord Lister, F.R.C.S., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — Alfred Bray Kempe, M.A. 



o , • f Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Secretaries. — < _ . . _ ' .... ' , ' . _ 

 L Professor Arthur William Rucker, M.A., D.Sc. 



Foreign Secretary. — Thomas Edward Thorpe, Sc.D., LL.D. 



Other Members of Council. — Horace T. Brown, F.C.S. ; James Bryce, 

 D.C.L. ; Captain Ettrick William Creak, R.N. ; Professor James 

 Dewar, M.A. ; Professor Edwin Bailey Elliott, M.A. ; Hans Friedrich 

 Gadow, Ph.D. ; Professor William Dobinson Halliburton, M.D. ; Pro- 

 fessor William Abbott Herdman, D.Sc. ; Sir Andrew Noble, K.C.B. ; 

 Professor Arnold William Reinold, M.A. ; George Johnstone Stoney, 

 D.Sc. ; George James Symons, F.R.Met.Soc. ; J. J. H. Teall, M.A. ; 

 Professor Joseph John Thomson, M^A. ; Professor Edward Burnett 

 Tylor, D.C.L. ; Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., M.D. 



The following telegram from Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape 

 of Good Hope was read : — ■" Lines of Beta Crucis 4552, 4569, 4575, 

 described unknown in my April paper, Lunt finds due to silicon. 

 Paper follows. ' 



The following Papers were read : — 



