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A SPECIAL meeting of the Physical Society of London will be held at Cambridge on Saturday, May 9. The members will leave Liverpool Street at 11 am., and on arrival at Cambridge will become the guests of the Cambridge members. The meeting will be held in the Cavendish Laboratory at 2.30. The following communications will be read: some experiments on the electric discharge in vacuum-tubes, by Prof. J. J. Thomson, F.R.S.; some experiments on ionic velocities, by Mr. W. C. D. Whetham; on the resistance of some mercury standards, by Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, F. R. S.; on an apparatus for measuring the compressibility of liquids, by Mr. S. Skinner; some measurements with the pneumatic bridge, by Mr. W. N. Shaw. After the meeting members will have an opportunity of seeing the Cavendish Laboratory and other University Laboratories.
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Notes. Nature 44, 17–20 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044017b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/044017b0
