PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LITERAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OF LIVERPOOL. 



SESSION FOKTY-TWO, 1852-3. 



FIRST MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — October 18, 1852. 



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



The Secretary read the following Report of the retiring Council, 

 which was received and adopted : — 



The Literary and Philosophical Society has now entered upon the 

 duties of the Forty-second Session, and in accordance with the Laws, 

 the retiring Council present their Report. 



At the last Annual Meeting the gentlemen whose names were 

 enrolled as members amounted to 202 : of these, 137 were ordinary 

 members. 



During the session, 2 were added to the number of corresponding 

 members, both of whom had previously belonged to the Society, and 14 

 new members were elected. But 15 names have been removed from 

 the list of ordinary membei*s, by death, resignations, and the 2nd law ; 

 BO that our numbers are now 136 ordinary, and 67 corresponding 

 members : 203 in the aggregate. 



SeveraJ Donations to the Library have been made during the past 

 year, for which the thanks of the Society have been offered to the 

 donors. 



The Council cannot report upon this occasion, as on the last, the 

 pubHcation of another volume of "Proceedings," inasmuch as it has 

 been found advantageous to print biennially. 

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