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views given out in that paper of the manner in which the various 
elements most common in steel exert their influence in so materially 
modifying the properties of the metal 
The following are the elements the action of which is considered, 
viz., silicon, sulphur, phosphorus, manganese, chromium, tungsten, 
and titanium. 
PRIVATE BUSINESS. 
Mr. Sang’s motion of January 16th, that Law XIV. be amended 
by the addition of the words, “ Excepting when there are five 
Mondays in January, in which case the meetings shall be held on 
the third and fifth Mondays of that month,” was adopted by the 
Society, with a verbal emendation. The following words were 
accordingly added to Law XIV. : “ Excepting when there are five 
Mondays in January, in which case the meetings for that month 
shall be held on the third and fifth Mondays.” 
Monday , 6th March 1882. 
Professor H. C. FLEEMIXG JEXKTN, E.P.S., 
Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman intimated that a letter had been received from the 
Imperial Society of Xaturalists of Moscow, inviting the Society to 
be represented on the 14/2 May 1882, at the celebration of the 
fiftieth anniversary of the graduation of its Vice-President, Dr. 
Charles Kenard. 
The following Communications were read 
1. The Effect of Elame on the Electric Discharge. By 
Dr. A. Macfarlane and Mr. D. Eintoul. (Plate IV. a). 
The properties of flames of various kinds as generating electricity 
and as serving to conduct a voltaic current, as also their behaviour 
under the influence of a charge of electricity, have been investigated 
