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Fifth Meeting — December 16, 1850. 

 J. B. YATES, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. John Hartnup, F.R.A.S., and Mr. George Hamilton, 

 were elected Members of the Society. 



The Annual Report of the Royal Institution, Cornwall, 

 was received. 



Mr. Yates, on the part of Mr. Boardman, presented a 

 Medallion of the late Mr. Bentley, executed in porcelain, and 

 read the following letter : — 



"Aighurth, Dec, 9, 1850. 



" Dear Sir, — I beg to present to the Liverpool Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, of which you are the worthy President, 

 a medallion portrait of Mr. Bentley, executed in the material 

 called jasper, by Wedgwood, from a model in wax by Tlaxman. 



" So many years have elapsed since the death of Mr. Bentley, 

 that few of our townsmen are aware that he was once a distin- 

 guished resident of Liverpool, a few particulars respecting him 

 may, therefore, be interesting. 



" Mr. Bentley settled in Liverpool about the middle of the 

 last century, and his name appears in conjunction with that of 

 my respected father, in Gore's first Directory, published in the 

 year 1766, as Manchester warehousemen. The former a 

 widower, the latter a bachelor, lived together in Paradise- 

 street, nearly opposite the mansion of your late venerable 

 relative, Mr. Ashton, since the Star and Garter Hotel, and 

 now, alas, further degraded. Paradise-street was then a 

 fasliionable quarter, and received its name from the charms of 

 its situation. 



" The illustrious Priestley, who then held a professorship in 

 the Warrington Academy, an institution rescued from oblivion 



