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that the membership should be strengthened, so that the 

 property of the Society may be adequately maintained. 



The lack of available funds has to a certain extent pre- 

 vented much progress being made with the binding of the 

 books in the library, and your Council acknowledges 

 with much pleasure the fact that the Microscopical and 

 Natural History Section has expended the sum of £22,. 

 1 23. od. in binding natural history works out of grants pre- 

 viously voted by the Society to the Section for natural 

 history purposes, and that they are in the course of printing 

 a catalogue of the natural history works in the Society's 

 library. It may be desirable that the policy of preserving 

 this class of publications should be continued, by binding 

 the whole up to date. 



The number of Societies regularly using the building 

 for their meetings is now four, viz. : — 



The Manchester Architects' Society. 

 The Manchester Geological Society. 

 The Manchester Medical Society. 

 The Manchester Photographic Society. 



The Council recommends the continuance of the system 

 of electing associates of Sections, and the usual resolu- 

 tion authorising the same will be submitted to the annual 

 meeting. 



A portrait of Mr. Baxendell, by Mr. Brothers, has been 

 purchased and presented by several members to the Society. 



Two meetings of the Society have been held in the 

 afternoon, on February 21st and March 21st. They were 

 the best attended of the meetings of the session, and this 

 result will justify the new Council in repeating the experi- 

 ment. 



During the session an extra volume of the Memoirs has 

 been published, consisting of Professor Reynolds's "Memoir" 

 of the late Dr. Joule. 



