PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 3rd, 191 6. 



The President, Professor SYDNEY J. HiCKSON, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes, M.A., drew attention to the recent acces- 

 sions to the Society's Library, and a vote of thanks was accorded 

 the donors of the books upon the table. The following were 

 amongst the recent accessions to the Society's Library : — 

 ''Results of Observations made at the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory at Cheltenham, 

 Maryland, igis and 191 4" by D. L. Hazard (Se;:ial No. 19) 

 (4to., Washington, D.C., 191 5), presented by the United States 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington ; " La Science Fran- 

 gaise {Exposition Universelle et Internationale de San Fran- 

 cisco)" Tomes i and 2 (8vo., Paris, 191 5), presented by the 

 Mmistere franyais de I'lnstruction publique, Y2x'\%-/Wn Intro- 

 duction to the Grammar of the Tibetan Language ....," by 

 S. C. Das (4to., Darjeeling, 191 5), presented by the author; 

 " Echoes from East and; West . . . .," by Roby Datta (8vo., 

 Cambridge, 1909), presented by the author; " Refonse au Livre 

 blanc Allevuind du 10 Mai, 191 5, ' Die volkerrechtswidrige 

 Fiihrung des Belgischen V olkskriegs' " (io\., Paris, 1916), pre- 

 sented by the Belgian Foreign Office; " Results of Observations 

 iimde at the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic 

 Observatory near Honolidu, Hazvaii, iQi ^ and 1914" by D. L. 

 Hazard (Serial No. 21.), (4to., Washington, D.C., 1916), 

 and " Results of Observations nuide at the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observatory near Tucson, 

 Arizona, 191 ^ and 191 4," by D. L. Hazard (Serial No. 23), (4tOi., 

 Washington, D.C., 19 16), presented by the United States Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, Washington; "Check-List of Books and 

 Pamphlets relating to the History of the Pacific Northzvest," by 

 Charles W. Smith (8vo., Olympia, Washington, 1909), pre- 



