Proceedings. 



December 16, 1897. 



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



Professor Gabriel Lippmann was admitted into the Society. 



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

 ordered for them, 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " On a Method of determining the Reactions at the Points of 

 Support of Continuous Beams." By George Wilson, 

 M.Sc, Demonstrator in Engineering in the Whitworth 

 Laboratory of the Owens College, Manchester. Commu- 

 nicated by Professor Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. 



II. " The Comparative Chemistry of the Suprarenal Capsules." 

 By B. Moore, M.A., Sharpey Research Scholar and 

 Assistant in Physiology, University College, London, and 

 Swale Vincent, M.B. (Lond.), British Medical Association 

 Research Scholar. Communicated by Professor Schafer, 

 F.R.S. 



HI. " Memoir on the Integration of Partial Differential Equations 

 of the Second Order in Three Independent Variables, 

 when an Intermediary Integral does not exist in general." 

 By A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., Sadlerian Professor in the 

 University of Cambridge. 



IV. " On the Biology of Stereum liirsutum, Fr. By H. Marshall 

 Ward, D.Sc, F.R.S. , Professor of Botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge. 



V. "An Examination into the Registered Speeds of American 

 Trotting Horses, with Remarks on their value as Heredit- 

 ary Data." By Francis Galton, D.C.L., F.R.S. 



VI. " On the Thermal Conductivities of Single and Mixed Solids 

 and Liquids, and their Variation with Temperature." By 

 Charles H. Lees, D.Sc, Assistant Lecturer in Physics in 

 the Owens College. Communicated by Professor Schuster, 

 F.R.S. 



VII. " Cloudiness : Note on a Novel Case of Frequency." By 

 Karl Pearson, M.A., F.R.S., University College, London. 



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