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Presents. 



[Mar. 20, 



March 20, 1890. 



Sir G. GABRIEL STOKES, Barfc., President, in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered 

 for them. 



The Bakerian Lecture was delivered as follows : — 



Bakerian Lecture. — " The Discharge of Electricity through 

 Gases. (Preliminary Communication.) " By Arthur 

 Schuster, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in Owens College, 

 Manchester. Received March 20, 1890. 



[Publication deferred.] 



Presents, March 20, 1890. 



Transactions. 



Berwickshire Naturalists' Cluh. Proceedings. Yol. XIT. Part 2. 



8vo. [Alnwick, 1890.] The Club. 



Brussels: — Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des 



Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Memoires. Tome XLVII. 4to. 



Bruxelles 1889 ; Memoires Couronnes et autres Memoires. 



Tomes XL-XLIT. 8vo. Bruxelles 1887-89; Memoires 



Couronnes et Memoires des Savants Etrangers. Tome XLIX. 



4to. Bruxelles 1888 ; Biographie Rationale. Tome IX. 



Ease. 3. Tome X. Ease. 1-2. 8vo. Bruxelles 1886-89. 



The Academy. 



Calcutta : — Indian Museum. Notes on Indian Economic Ento- 

 mology. Vol. I. No. 2. 8vo. Calcutta 1889. 



The Museum. 



Dublin : — Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings. Ser. 3. Yol. L 



No. 2. 8vo. Dublin 1889 ; Transactions. Vol. XXIX. Part 12. 



4to. DuhUn 1889. The Academy. 



Kew: — Royal Gardens. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. 



No. 39. 8vo. London 1890. The Director. 



London: — London Mathematical Society. Proceedings. Vol. XX. 



Nos. 359-367. 8vo. [London'] 1889. The Society. 



Lyons : — Academie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts. Memoires 



(Classe des Lettres). Vols. XXIV-XXVI. 8vo. Lyon 



