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June 2, 1904. 



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



Mr. Harold Wager and Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall were 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 the Electric Equilibrium of the Sun." By Professor 

 Svante Arrhenius. Communicated by Sir William 

 Huggins, Pres. E.S. 



II. " Colours in Metal Glasses and in Metallic Films." By J. C. 

 Maxwell Garnett. Communicated by Professor Larmor, 

 Sec. E.S. 



III. " On a Direct Method of Measuring the Coefficient of Volume 



Elasticity of Metals." By A. Mallock, F.E.S. 



IV. " A Method of Measuring Directly High Osmotic Pressures." 



By the Earl of Berkeley and E. G. J. Hartley. Com- 

 municated by W. C. D. Whetham, F.E.S. 



V. " The Advancing Front of the Train of Waves emitted by a 

 Theoretical Hertzian Oscillator." By Professor A. E. H. 

 Love, F.E.S. 



VI. " On the General Circulation of the Atmosphere in Middle and 

 Higher Latitudes." By Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.E.S. 



VII. " On the Magnetic Changes of Length in Annealed Eods of 

 Cobalt and Nickel." By Dr. Shelford Bidwell, F.E.S. 



VIII. " On the Electric Effect of Eotating a Dielectric in a Magnetic 

 Field." By Dr. H. A. Wilson. Communicated by Pro- 

 fessor J. J. Thomson, F.E.S. 



