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May 19, 1904. 



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



Professor Ernest Rutherford, elected 1903, was admitted into the 

 Society. 



Dr. T. G. Brodie, Professor A. C. Dixon, Professor J. J. Dobbie, 

 Mr. A. E. Shipley, Professor M. W. Travers, and Mr. W. W. Watts 

 were admitted into the Society. 



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

 ordered for them. 



The Bakeeian Lecture : " The Succession of Changes in Radio- 

 active Bodies " was delivered by Professor Ernest Rutherford, 

 F.R.S. 



The following Papers were read : — . 



I. " The Spectrum of the Emanation of Radium." By Sir William 

 Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., and Professor Collie, F.R.S. 



II. " Experimental Determinations for Saturated Solutions." By the 

 Earl of Berkeley. Communicated by F. H. Neville, 

 F.R.S. 



III. " On the Liquefied Hydrides of Phosphorus, Sulphur, and the 



Halogens, as Conducting Solvents. — Part I." By D. McIntosh 

 and B. D. Steele. Communicated by Sir William Ramsay, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S. 



IV. " On the Liquefied Hydrides of Phosphorus, Sulphur, and the 



Halogens, as Conducting Solvents. — Part II." By E. H. 

 Archibald and D. MoIntosh. Communicated by Sir 

 William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S. 



V. " On the General Theory of Integration." By Dr. W. H. Young. 

 Communicated by Dr. Hobson, F.R.S. 



The Society adjourned over the Whitsuntide Recess to Thursday. 

 June 2. 



