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REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
Distillation." This was illustrated by an exhibition of many 
forms of the apparatus treated of. 
May 29. Dr. E: H. Cook read a paper (postponed from an 
earher date) on " Some Experiments with the Electrical Brush 
Discharge." 
Nove77iber 23. The president of the section, Mr. F. Walhs 
Stoddart, read " Notes on the Estimation of Dissolved Oxygen 
in Water." The paper was accompanied by a demonstration. 
LLEWELYN N. TYACK, Hon. Sec. 
OENITHOLOGICAL SECTION. 
ON October 18 the Local List of Species for the preparation 
of which this section was formed, was finally completed. 
On October 28 several skins of South African birds were sent 
for the inspection of the section by Mr. Fleming, who had 
lately returned from Natal. 
On February 14, 1901, a meeting was held, Professor Lloyd 
Morgan taking the chai'f , at which it was decided to dissolve 
the section, as the Local List had been completed, and matter 
for ordinary meetings was not to be obtained from those few 
members still constituting the section. The balance of the 
section was subsequently handed over to the treasurer of the 
parent Society on the understanding that it should be applied 
to the expenses of printing the Proceedings in which the Local 
List had appeared. 
D. T. PRICE, Hon. Sec. 
