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Ordinary Meeting, November 2nd, 1858. 
J. C. Dyer, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The design for a memorial proposed to he erected in 
St. Andrew’s Church, Ancoats, in memory of the late 
John Young Caw, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., having been exhibited 
to the Meeting, Professor Christie intimated that he would 
receive any subscriptions towards it which might be offered 
by the Members. 
Mr. Buchan having communicated a notice of the discovery 
of a large quantity of fossil fishes in Perthshire, in a state of 
very beautiful preservation, Mr. Binney drew attention to 
the indestructible nature of the enamel forming the scales 
of some fishes, and to this circumstance he attributed the 
generally very perfect preservation of fossils of this class. 
A conversation ensued on the Atlantic,cable. The Chair- 
man insisted on the imperfect mechanical arrangements which 
had been adopted for its submersion. He also considered 
that it would have been better to land its end in a more 
sheltered situation than Valencia Bay, such as, for instance, 
the harbour of Cork. Dr. Smith drew attention to experi- 
ments recently made in the Thames, which were said to 
prove that a current of water, passing a submerged wire, 
induced currents of electricity in the latter. The experiments 
of Faraday had shown that a conducting body carried in a 
direction across the magnetic dip had electric currents induced 
in it, but in experiments on the water flowing under Waterloo 
Bridge this effect was too small to be appreciated even by 
that able physicist. Doubtless feeble currents exist according 
to Faraday’s law, but it is difficult to show why they should 
affect a submerged conductor unless the latter is imperfectly 
insulated. Dr. Joule suggested that the interference of 
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