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Ordinary Meeting, February 22nd, 1887. 
Professor OsBOKNE Eeynolds, LL.D., F.KS., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. H. Grimshaw, F.C.S., and Mr. John Angell, F.T.O., 
F.C.S., were appointed auditors of the Treasurer’s Accounts. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.RS., announced 
the discovery near Oldham of new specimens of a fruit iden- 
tical with one described by him in 1869, as being the fruit 
of a Calamite. The specimen then described was identified 
as being Calamitean, on the ground of peculiarities of internal 
organisation. In three at least of the new specimens each 
fruit is borne at the summit of a short Peduncle, which 
latter is a young twig of an ordinary Calamite. 
‘^Electrolytic Polarisation,” by Charles H. Lees, B.Sc., 
and Robert W. Stewart, Student in the Owens College. 
Communicated by Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.RS. 
In making some experiments on Polarisation in the Phy- 
sical Laboratory of the Owens College, under the direction 
of the Demonstrator, W. W. Haldane Gee, B.Sc,, use was 
made of the dead beat galvanometer designed by Deprez 
and D’Arsonval, which proved to be very well adapted for 
the study of rapidly changing currents. The instrument 
being little known in England, it has been thought that it 
would be of interest to bring it under the notice of the 
Society. In addition, some of the results obtained are, as far 
as we can ascertain quite new. 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Soc. — Vol. XXVI. — No. 8. — Session 1886-7. 
