THIRTEENTH MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — 17th May, 1852. 



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



Mr. Bloxam exhibited an autograph letter of Dr. Jenner, enclosing 

 threads dipped in vaccine virus, from a cow-pox pustule. 



Mr. TowsoN reported having received certain tide-tables, graphic 

 illustrations of the tides at various stations, and other documents, from 

 the Admiralty, bearing upon the question of a SeK-registering Tide- 

 gauge, which the Society wished to be erected at the Liverpool 

 Observatory. 



A Sub-committee, consisting of Dr. Duncan, Chairman, Mr. Towson, 

 Mr. M'Leod, Mr. Hartnup, Mr. J. P. G. Smith, and the President, 

 Treasurer, and Secretary, ex officio, was appointed to take the subject 

 into further consideration, with a view to memorialize the Town Council 

 or Dock Committee. 



The Secretary intimated that a resolution, unanimously passed at a 

 meeting of the Soiree delegates from the dififerent societies, recom- 

 mending a trial of the electric-light upon the landing-stage, had been 

 forwarded to the Dock Committee. 



Mr. R. W. Anderson, and Mr. Bloxam, gave a detailed account of 

 the visit to Warrington. 



A resolution was moved by Mr. Bloxam, and carried by acclamation, 

 that the thanks of this Society be given to the Committee there, and to 

 Mr. Marsh in particular, for the kind attentions paid to the members 

 who joined in the excursion. 



