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Annual General Meeting, April 29th, 1884. 



H. E. RoscoE, Ph.D., LL.D., F.RS., &c., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Alfred J. King, of Manchester, was elected an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 1884. 



The Treasurer reports that the expenditure of the Society 

 still gains slightly upon the receipts, and obliges your 

 Council to exercise a rigid economy in all the expending 

 departments. The increase in the number of new members 

 added to the roll during the past session has been a step in 

 the right direction, and the Council earnestly recommends 

 a still further extension of the membership as the best 

 means of placing the finances in a healthy condition. The 

 publication of the centenary volume would have been a great 

 drain upon the funds but for the generous gifts af a few 

 friends whose names appear in the balance sheet, and for 

 which the Society hereby expresses its hearty thanks. 

 These donations were offered in the hope that they would 

 lead to a more extended effort to enlarge the present build- 

 ing as a permanent memorial of the completion of a hundred 

 years of the Society's labours. 



The present seems an opportune time for your Council to 

 earnestly commend this movement to the generous con- 

 sideration of the members, and through them to the outside 

 friends of the Society. Many of our fellow-citizens are 

 scarcely aware how important,- nay how essential, it is to 

 the public welfare to have a centre of the most advanced 



Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc— Vol. XXIII.— No. 10.— Session 1883-4. 



