Professor CAYLEY, Note on Abel's Theorem Professor LIVEING, On the Rocks of the Channel Islands, No. II. Dr T. STERRY HUNT, Celestial Chemistry from the time of Newton Mr E. B. TAWNEY, On the Upper Bagshot Sands of Hordwell Cliffs, Mr R. T. GLAZEBROOK, On some equations connected with the Electro- PROCEEDINGS OF THE Cambridge bilosophical Society. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. October 31, 1881. PROFESSOR NEWTON, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. The following were elected Officers and new members of Council for the ensuing year: President. Mr F. M. Balfour. Vice-Presidents. Treasurer. Dr J. B. Pearson. Secretaries. Mr J. W. Clark. Mr Coutts Trotter. Mr J. W. L. Glaisher. New members of Council. Mr Michael Foster. Mr R. T. Glazebrook. W. Hillhouse, B.A., Trinity College, and A. Hill, B.A., Downing College, were balloted for and duly elected Fellows of the Society. VOL. IV. PT. III. 9 PROFESSOR NEWTON on leaving the chair made the following remarks: On laying down the office by which I have been honoured for the past two years I hope you will allow me to say a few words. At our last Annual General Meeting I ventured to direct the attention of the Society to three subjects which seemed to be especially worthy of its consideration, and to these I would again refer. There was first an alteration in our hour of meeting. The suggestion I then threw out was favourably received by the Society, and I think no one regrets the change, which was in consequence made; while I know that to the officers and Council it has proved a matter of great convenience. There was next the question of the removal of our Library. This also met with the approval of the Society, and what is more with that of the University at large. I have to tender my sincere thanks to all who have aided me in the somewhat protracted negotiations that were necessary for carrying out a scheme which I believe will be most beneficial to the progress of the scientific stuuies of the University, and I am bound to add that our proposals have throughout been met in a most liberal spirit by the Senate. The joint Committee appointed by the Council of the Society and by the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate to manage the 'Cambridge Philosophical Library' on Friday last agreed to the set of Rules a copy of which I now place on the table, and I have the pleasure of announcing that the Library is not only open, but in working order. I hope it will be admitted that in framing these Rules, the representatives of the Society have duly cared for the interests of its Fellows, and that the inconveniences to which they will at times be subjected, through the room being occasionally required for examinations, will in practice prove to be but slight, and more than compensated by the advantage of our books being rendered far more accessible than they were before, and being placed under the direct charge of a Library-clerk. In this connexion I must mention the name of one of our Secretaries, Mr J. W. Clark, whose services in the very considerable operations of removing, rearranging and recataloguing our books have been unremitting, and the Council by passing a special vote of thanks to him on that account has endeavoured to acknowledge the obligation under which the Society-I may say the University-lies. Thirdly I have to refer to the recovery and restoration to its proper place of the Society's lost Charter, which it was my agreeable duty to lay before you at our meeting on the 21st of March. I have now only once more to express my gratitude to the Council and all the Fellows of the Society-but especially to its officers-for the able and kind assistance they have rendered me |