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GENERAL. 
URING the past Session there have been nine meetings of 
u the Society — eight ordinary and one special — all held in 
University College. 
The first was on Thursday, October 9th, when Mr. Thomas 
Morgans, C.E., gave an account of the manufacture of paper 
from wood. Poplar, spruce, or some other wood, comparatively 
free from resinous material, is chopped up by powerful machinery, 
and then boiled at high pressure for four or five hours with a 
solution of caustic soda, or with sulphite of lime or magnesia. 
The result is a pulp similar to that used in ordinary paper 
W’orks ; and the subsequent processes of manufacture are those 
usually followed. Good specimens of the paper were exhibited, 
and also a small casting in wood-pulp board. Dr. Border then 
made an interesting communication on the “ Recent Eclipse of 
the Moon,” which will be found on page 1(36. 
On November 6th, Mr. G. Munro Smith read a paper on 
the “ Heart-beat,” an abstract of which is printed at page 231. 
Prof, Ramsay, Ph.D., subsequently gave a vivid description of 
The Volcanic Phenomena in the I nited States National Park 
on the Yellow'stone River,” as observed by him during a recent 
visit. 
On December 4th, Mr. W, A. Shenstone, EkC.S.. gave an 
account of The Physiological and Chemical V ork of Jean 
Baptiste Andre Dumas,” illustrated by a large number of his 
original experiments, and by models of his appliances. 
