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1852, communicating the following resolutions, adopted unanimously, 

 first at a Meeting of the Council, and afterwards at a Meeting of the 

 Members of that Society, viz : — 



1. That, on all occasions of special interest, the Secretaries be 

 authorized and directed to extend to the Officers of the other learned 

 societies in town the privilege of admission possessed by the members 

 of the Historic Society. 



2. That the circulai-s be regularly sent to the President and Secretaries 

 of those Societies, giving them the right of admission to the ordinary 

 meetings of the Session. 



It was resolved unanimously, 

 " That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Historic Society 

 of Lancashire and Cheshire for their invitation to the Officers of 

 this Society to attend their meetings." 



The following resolutions of the Council were read, and received the 

 unanimous confirmation of the Society, viz : — 



1. That in accordance with the resolution of this Society, to give th© 

 privilege of attendance at the public meetings to the President and 

 Secretaries, ex ojiciis, of such Societies as meet at the Royal Institution, 

 or may be approved of by the Society, it is resolved that the President 

 and Secretaries of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 

 be invited to attend the meetings. 



2. A similar resolution as regards the Polytechnic Society. 



3. A similar resolution as regards the Architectural and ARCHiEo- 

 LOGicAL Society. 



Mr. R. V. Yates called attention to the remains of a sea-beech found 

 by Mr. Newlands in making excavations for the sewer near the Dingle. 

 In exhibiting specimens of the shells that had been found, Mr. Yates 

 remarked that it was highly probable, at some distant period, the bed of 

 the Mersey had extended to that district. 



Mr. Hartnup exhibited a very beautiful and life-like Daguerreotype 

 portrait of General Pierce, the President of the United States. 



Mr. James Yates, M.A., F.R.S., &c.. Corresponding Member, gave 

 on account, accompanied with maps and other illustrations, of 



THE RHENO-DANUBIAN BARRIER OF THE ROMAN 

 EMPIRE. 



This great work was chiefly constructed under the Emperors Hadrian 

 and Probus. It commenced on the Danube near Ratisbon, and after 



