1 Annual Report of the Council. 



to madder and indigo, and with such success that all the work 

 which has since been done in this connection finds its origin in 

 his investigations. A full account of Dr. Schunck's chemical 

 researches, by Professor W. H. Perkin, having already appeared 

 in the Manchester Memoirs, (Vol. xlvii., No. 6), it will not be 

 necessary in this place to pursue the topic any further. His 

 researches were carried on in a private laboratory, erected near 

 his house — Oak lands, Kersal — which was one of the most com- 

 plete of its kind in existence. Under the terms of his will it 

 has now passed into the possession of Owens College, whiiher 

 it will shortly be transferred. 



Dr. Schunck was elected an ordinary member of the Society 

 on January 25th, 1842, along with Joule, Playfair, Binney, 

 Dancer, and others whose names are now but a memory. In 

 1855 he took office as Secretary, a position which he retained 

 till i860, and thenceforward was seldom out of harness. He was 

 four times President (1866-7, 1874-5, 1890-1, and 1896-7) and 

 Vice-President in the intervening years. His great interest in 

 the welfare of the Society was shewn in various ways ; thus, 

 besides contributing a large number of papers to the Manchester 

 Jlfemoirs, his minor communications were of considerable in- 

 terest, and he attached great value to the open discussions which 

 have always been a feature of the Society's meetings. To him, 

 also, the Society is indebted for a bronze bust of Dr. Angus 

 Smith, for portraits of the Rev. William Gaskell and the Rev. 

 William Johns, and for a mural tablet commemorating the fact 

 that Dalton used one of the rooms in the Society's house as a 

 laboratory. It was fitting, therefore, that he should be awarded 

 the Society's Dalton medal, the presentation of which, in 1898, 

 afforded him the liveliest satisfaction. His name was known and 

 honoured in other than local circles ; thus he was elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Society in 1850, and many of his papers 

 are enshrined in the Philosophical Transactiotis, i\\& Philosophical 

 Magazine, the Chemical Society's Journal, Liehig's Antialen, and 

 other publications at home and abroad. He was awarded the 

 Davy Medal by the Royal Society in 1899, and in the same year 



