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* The Fracture of Metals under repeated Alternations of Stress." By 

 J. A. Ewing, LL.D., F.R.S., and J. C. W. Humfrey, B.A., 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 



"An Intracellular Toxin of the Typhoid Bacillus." By Allan 

 Macfadyen, M.D., and Sydney Eowland, M.A. Communi- 

 cated by Lord Lister, F.R.S. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " Report on the recent Eruption of the Soufriere, in St. Vincent, 

 and of a Visit to Mont Pelee. Part I." By Tempest Anderson, 

 M.D., B.Sc, F.G.S., and John S. Flett, M.A., D.Sc, F.G.S. 

 Communicated by the Secretaries of the Royal Society. 



II. "On the Correlation of the Mental and Physical Characters in 

 Man. Part II." By Alice Lee, D.Sc, Marie A. Lewenz, 

 B.A., and Karl Pearson, F.R.S. 



III. " Contributions to a Theory of the Capillary Electrometer. II. — 



On an Improved Form of Instrument." By G. J. Burch, 

 M.A. Oxon., F.R.S. 



IV. " An Experimental Determination of the Variation of the Critical 



Velocity of Water with Temperature." By E. G. Coker, M.A. 

 Cantab., D.Sc. Edin., and S. B. Clement, B.Sc. Communicated 

 by Professor Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. 



November 27, 1902. 



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



Mr. Alfred Harker and Mr. Robert Kiclston were admitted into the 

 Society. 



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

 ordered for them. 



Professor Waldemar Christofer Brogger, Professor Gaston Darboux, 

 Professor Ewald Hering, Mr. George William Hill, Professor Albert 

 Abraham Michelson, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen, Graf H. zu 

 Solms-Laubach, and Professor Julius Thomsen were elected Foreign 

 Members of the Society. 



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 : — 



