PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LIVERPOOL. 



SESSION FORTY-ONE, 1851-2. 



FIRST MEETING. 

 Royal Institution. — October 20, 1851. 

 J. B. YATES, Esq., F.S.A., &c., President, in the chair. 



The Secretary read the following Report of the retiring Council : — 



The Council, in meeting the members of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, in accordance with custom, and in obedience to the 

 lawb, on another anniversary, have to offer their hearty greetings. The 

 Society has now assembled at the opening of the Forty-first Session, 

 (not the fortieth, as has been explained in the circular,) and if the last 

 was one of its best, it is hoped that this will prove equally felicitous, 

 full of matter, fresh in thought, and genei-ally interesting. 



At the beginning of last Session the Society consisted of 144 

 ordinary, and 65 corresponding members; it now enrols 137 in the 

 former, and 65 in the latter class; 9 new members were elected, 5 

 ceased to be connected with the Society by the operation of the laws, 

 and 1 1 others by resignations and deaths. 



To the list of corresponding members 4 were added, and 4 have 

 been removed by death, amongst whom was the distinguished Audubon, 

 and Edward, Earl of Derby, whose zoological collection has given to 

 Knowsley a wide celebrity. Of this class it is feared that some have 

 been taken away whose death has not been recorded by us, and that the 

 abodes of others are unknown. Any information which will enable the 

 Council to make a perfect list, ^vill be gladly received. 

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