MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 6th, 1891. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 of the books upon the table. 



The President unveiled and presented to the Society 

 a bronze bust of the late Dr. R. Angus Smith, F.R.S., taken 

 from a bust in white marble by T. Nelson MacLean, and 

 briefly referred to Dr. Smith's services to science, his long 

 connection with the Society, and particularly to his work 

 for it as the author of the Memoir of Dalton and History 

 of the Atomic Theory, and of the Centenary of Science in 

 Manchester^ published by the Society. 



A hearty vote of thanks was awarded to Dr. Schunck 

 for his valuable gift. 



Mr. FARADAY briefly recapitulated some previous in- 

 teresting gifts to the Society, including the bust of Dr. 

 William Henry, F.R.S., which Sir Francis Chantrey was 

 commissioned to execute for it in 1836 ; the bust of Eaton 

 Hodgkinson, by Slater, presented in 1862 by Dr. Joule, 

 Dr. Schunck, Mr. (subsequently Sir) John Hawkshaw, 



