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1 -54 inches. This will perhaps partially explain the slow movement at 

 the end of the experiment. 



The curve, Fig. 4, shows the movement due to frost. It is con- 

 structed as before, and the ordinates represent the position of the stone 

 magnified 8 times. On February 2, at 12.45 P.M., the thaw was 

 beginning, but the ground was still hard • readings were also taken 

 at 3.25 P.M. and 5.25 P.M. The stone fell 2*37 mm. in 4 hours 40 

 minutes. 



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May 9, 1901. 



Meeting for Discussion. 



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



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

 ordered for them. 



Professor Franz von Leydig was balloted for and elected a Foreign 

 Member of the Society. 



The President stated from the Chair that the meeting was convened 

 in pursuance of the following resolution of the Council, passed at their 

 meeting on February 21, viz. : — •" That a special meeting of the Fellows 

 be called in order that the President and Council may have an oppor- 

 tunity of hearing the views of the Fellows on the questions raised in 

 the Eeport of the British Academy Committee, it being understood 

 that no vote will be taken." 



The Report under reference was laid before the meeting, and a 

 discussion ensued, in which the following Fellows took part : — Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, Dr. Johnstone Stoney, Professor A. R. Forsyth, 

 Professor S. P. Thompson, Professor E. Ray Lankester, Sir John 

 Evans, Professor A. Schuster, the Right Hon. J. Bryce, Professor J. D. 

 Everett, Sir Henry Howorth, Sir A. Geikie, Dr. J . H. Gladstone, and 

 Mr. G. J. Burch. 



