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SIXTH MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — January 10, i8r)3. 



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



The Secretary read letters from the Arcliitectural and Archaeological 

 Society, and from the Polytechnic Society, acknowledging the invita- 

 tion of the President and Secretaries of those Societies to attend the 

 meetings. 



The Secretary also read a letter, dated December 27, 1852, addressed 

 by Mr. James Boardman to the President, suggesting that the 8th of 

 March next, being the centenary of the birth-day of William Roscoe, 

 it should be celebrated by the Literary and Scientific Bodies of the 

 town. 



It was resolved unanimously, 



" That the 8th of March, 1853, being the centenary of the birth-day 

 of William Roscoe, it is desirable to celebrate the same, and that Dr. 

 Dickinson, President, Edw^ard Heath, Esq., Treasurer, Joseph Brooks 

 Yates, Esq., Vice-President, William Rathbone, Esq., and the Secretary, 

 be appointed delegates to confer with the other learned Societies, with 

 full power to conduct the necessary arrangements for the celebration of 

 that day."- 



• The Centenary was celebrated in Liverpool, on the 8th March, 1853, under the manage- 

 ment of the Ibllowiug committee of representatives Iroia the Architectural and Archaeological 

 Society. Chemists' Association, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, Liverpool Academy, Polytechnic Society, and Royal Institution. 



Committee. 

 Chairman, — Joseph Dickinson, M. D., M.A„ F. L. S., &c., Pres. Lit. Phil. Soc. 



Rev. Thomas Moore, M.A., Hon. Sec. Hist. 



Soc. 

 J. A. Picton, F.S.A., Chairman of Library 



and Museum Committee. 

 John Poole, Esq. 



Rev. Thomas Raffles, D.O., L.L.D. 

 Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq. 

 William Rathbone, Esq. 

 J. W. Rawle, Esq. 



C. F. Salt, Esq., Hon. Sec. Poly. Soc. 

 W. R. Sandbach, Esq., Pres. Royal Inst. 

 J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 

 R. Sumner, Esq., Pres. Chem. Asa. 

 Rev. David Thom,D.D., Ph. D., V.P. Hist. 



Soc. 

 Rev. J. H. Thom, Hon. Sec. Royal Inst. 

 Charles Verelst, Esq., Pres. Arch. Soc. 

 R. VVhiuerey, Esq. 

 J. B. Yates, F.S.A., M.R.G.S., V.P. Lit and 



Phil. Soc. 



Secretary,— Thomas Sansora, A. L. S., F. B. S. E., Hon. Sec. Lit. and Phil. Sac. 

 The proceedinga of the day commenced with a Public Breakfast in the Philharmonic 



John Abraham, Esq., Hon. Sec Chem. Ass 



Charles Barber, Esq., Pres. L'poid Acad. 



James Boardman, Esq. 



Joseph Boult, Esq., Hon. Sec. Arch. Soc. 



R. Clay, Esq. 



Henry Dawson, Esq. 



Edward Evans, Esq., Treas. Chem. Ass. 



E. D. Faulkner, Esq. 



John Hay, Esq., V. P. Arch. Soc. 



Edward Heath, Esq., Treas. Lit. and Phil. 



Soc. 

 H. P. Horner, Esq., Pres. Poly. Soc. 

 Francis Homer, Esq., Treas Arch. Soc. 

 Rev. A. Hume, D.C.L., L.L.D., F.S.A.,&c., 



Hon. Sec. Hist. Soc. 

 Edward Jones, Esq. 



Joseph Mayer, F.S.A.,Hon. Cur. Hist. Soc. 

 Robert M'Aiidrew, F.L.S., V.P. Royal lust. 

 J. A. P. M'Bride, Esq., Sec. L'pool Acad. 



