Iltprts of Ptetings. 
GENEKAL. 
T he Society’s meetings during the past Session have been 
regularly held on the first Thursday in the month. At 
the meeting in October some alterations and additions to the 
bye-laws, passed at the annual meeting held on May 3rd, 1883, 
were confirmed. And a paper was read by Professor W. J. 
Sollas, on “Dousing or Divining for VA ater,” which produced a 
lively discussion. This will be found printed in full on another 
page. 
In November, Mr. Thos. Morgans, C.E., gave an interesting 
account of the industry of wood distilling as practised in 
England. At the end of his paper Mr. Morgans exhibited a 
specimen of iron pipe which by long immersion in the liquors 
from wood distilling had lost much of its iron and become soft 
like graphite, and had acquired the power of marking paper. 
In December, Professor Kamsay and Dr. Young gave, in 
their lecture-room at University College, to an unusually large 
gathering, a paper on “ Ice, Water, and Steam,” in which they 
gave some account of their recent important investigations in 
physical chemistry. 
Dr. S. P. Thompson read, at the January, 1884, meeting, a 
paper on “ Crimson Sunsets,” which attracted much interest. 
At the meeting in February Mr. Shenstone gave an account 
of some experiments made by Dr. Tilden and himself on the 
solubilities of salts at high temperatures, and suggested a 
