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February 12, 1903. 



Sir WILLIAM HUGGINS, K.C.B., O.M.; President, in the Chair. 



A List of the Presents was laid on the tahle, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



The President made reference to the great loss which the Societ} T 

 had sustained through the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Past- 

 President, and read the following letter, which had been drawn up by 

 the Council for dispatch to Sir Arthur Stokes, Bart. : — 



" Royal Society, 



" Burlington House, IF., 

 " February V2, 1903. 



" Dear Sir Arthur, 



" We are desired by the President and Council of the Royal Society, 

 and by the Fellows assembled at the ordinary meeting held this day, 

 to make known to you, and to your sister, Mrs. L. Humphr}^ their 

 most sincere sympathy in the great loss which has fallen upon you 

 through the death of your illustrious father. 



" For the long period of thirty-one years the Society was greatly 

 strengthened by the presence of your father as one of its secretaries. 

 Throughout this period his labours were unremitting, both in the 

 discharge of his official duties and in assistance given to the work of 

 individual Fellows ; they were thus most fruitful for the progress of 

 science. For five years the Society was proud to claim him as its 

 President. 



" Among the great names which are to be found in the roll of the 

 Society, your father's will always be held in honour among the 

 greatest. 



" It may be some little consolation to you in your present great 

 grief to be told how much his brethren in science admired, and while 

 admiring, loved him. 



" We are, 



" Yours very truly, 



" (Sd.) M. Foster, 

 " J. Larmor, 



' : Secretaries B.S. 



" Sir Arthur B. Stokes, Bart." 



The following Papers were read : — ■ 



I. " On the Decline of the Injury Current in Mammalian Nerve, 

 and its Modification by Changes of Temperature. — Prelimi- 



