PEOCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY. 
EIGHTY-NINTH SESSION, 1859-60. 
Wednesday, November 23, 1859. — Andrew Murray, Esq., President, 
in the Chair. 
Ramsay H. Traquair, Esq., 30 Clarence Street, was elected a member 
of the Society. 
The following donations to the Library were laid on the table, and 
thanks voted to the donors : — 
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 
for Session 1858-59, No. 13. — From the Society. Canadian Journal, 
Toronto, Nos. 20, 22, and 23, for 1859.— From the Canadian 
Institute, Toronto. Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical 
Society, Nos, 1, 2, 3, January to March 1859. New York. — From the 
Society. Conservatory Journal (Newspaper), No. 7 ; Boston, U.S.A. — 
From the Editor. Recherches Experimentales sur les Effects du Courant 
Electrique, applique au Nerf Grand Sympathique. Par M. Phillippe 
Comte Linati, et par M. Prime Caggiati, M.D. Parme, 1859. — From 
the Authors. 
Andrew Murray, Esq., President, then delivered the Opening Ad- 
dress, as follows : — 
Gentlemen, — It is the custom of this, as of most other 
Societies, to open the business of the session with an address 
from one of their Presidents ; and our rule is that this duty 
shall be performed by the senior President on the occasion of 
his retiring from office, it so happening that the terminal 
period of that office coincides with the commencement of our 
session. The term for which I was elected President now 
draws to a close ; I am about to lay down the honour with 
which you invested me ; and the duty of addressing you on 
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