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Proceedings and List of Papers read. 



May 13, 1897. 



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



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

 ordered for them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, the names of the Candidates recom- 

 mended by the Council for election into the Society were read as 

 follows : — 



Bell, Robert, LL.D. 

 Broadbent, Sir William Henry, 

 Bart. 



Chree, Charles, M.A. 

 Elwes, Henry John, P.L.S. 

 Haldane, John Scott, M.D. 

 Haswell, Professor William A., 

 D.Sc. 



Howes, Professor George Bond, 

 F.L.S. 



Kipping, F. Stanley, D.Sc. 

 Mathews, George Ballard, M.A. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " An Attempt to cause Helium or Argon to pass through Red- 

 hot Palladium, Platinum, or Iron." By William Ramsay, 

 F.R.S., and Morris W. Travers. 



II. " On the Negative After-images following brief Retinal Excita- 

 tion." By Shelford Bidwell, M.A., LL.B., F.R.S. 



III. " A Dynamical Theory of the Electric and Luminiferous Medium. 



Part III. Relations with Material Media." By Joseph 

 Larmor, F.R.S., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. 



IV. il On a new Method of Determining the Vapour Pressures of 



Solutions." By E. B. H. Wade, B.A., Scholar and Coutts- 

 Trotter Student of Trinity College, Cambridge. Communi- 

 cated by Professor J. J. Thomson, F.R.S. 



V. " On the Passage of Heat between Metal Surfaces and Liquids 

 in Contact with them." By T. E. Stanton, M.Sc. Commu- 

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



VI. " On the Magnetisation Limit of Iron." By Henry Wilde, 

 F.R.S. 



Murray, George Robert Milne, 

 F.L.S. 



Neville, Francis Henry, M.A. 

 Nicholson, Professor H. Alleyne, 

 M.D. 



Thomson, Professor John Millar, 

 F.C.S. 



Trouton, Professor Frederick 



Thomas, M.A. 

 Turner, Professor Herbert Hall, 



M.A. 



