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of the Memoirs and Proceedings for the session. The 

 Council trusts that in consideration of these circumstances 

 the members will excuse any inconvenience which may 

 have resulted. Two volumes will be issued to the members 

 for this session, viz., Vol. V. of the Memoirs and Proceedings , 

 and the " Memoir of James Prescott Joule," forming 

 Vol. VI. of the Memoirs and Proceedings. 



The number of papers presented during the session has 

 again been satisfactory evidence of the continued activity 

 of the Society in carrying on the work contemplated by its 

 eminent and public-spirited founders, one hundred and ten 

 years ago. During the session 22 papers, recording the 

 results of original research or observation, have been read 

 at its meetings, and of these 9, after careful consideration 

 by the Council, have been passed for publication in full as 

 Memoirs, some are still under consideration, and of the 

 remainder abstracts have been or will be printed in the 

 Proceedings. 



Edmund Salis Sciiwabe, B.A., was born November 

 17th, 1841, and christened in the Middleton Parish Church 

 by the present Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at 

 Overslade School, near Rugby, and at University College 

 School, London. In 1858 he entered at University College, 

 London, and took his B.A. degree at the London Univer- 

 sity, with honours in mathematics, in i860. In 1 861 he 

 became a partner in the firm of Messrs. Salis Schwabe and 

 Co., calico printers, of Rhodes and Manchester. In 1865 

 he married Sophia Jekyll, who died in 1870, leaving one 

 daughter. He took a great interest in New College, 

 late of London, now of Oxford, and in Owens College, 

 Manchester ; he was an auditor of the former, and con- 

 tributed to the funds of both institutions. He was elected 

 a member of the Society in 1881, but did not contribute to 

 its Memoirs or Proceedings- He died at the Windsor 

 Hotel, Montreal, August 4th, 1891. 



