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MEMOIRS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 4th, 1887. 

 Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., in the Chair. 



Reference was made to the loss which the City and the 

 Society had sustained through the death of the Society's 

 new member, Mr. Charles Moseley, and to the material 

 assistance which he had recently rendered to the Local 

 Committee for the reception of the British Association in 

 Manchester. Mr. Moseley made considerable sacrifices in 

 endeavouring to maintain the Manchester Aquarium as a 

 scientific institution, was instrumental in introducing and 

 establishing telephonic communications in the City, and 

 took an active part in organising the Manchester Jubilee 

 Exhibition. 



Mr. Faraday mentioned that during a recent excursion 

 (September) in the Belgian Ardennes he had seen a stuffed 

 heron at Laroche, on the Ourthe, and, on inquiring if the 

 bird was common in that locality, had been informed that it 

 was only seen there in the winter — when it was abundant — 

 but never in the summer months. He also alluded to the 

 4TH Series. — Vol. I. — No. i.— 18S7-8. 



