Proceedings. 3 



Ordinary Meeting, October i8, 1887. 



Professor BALFOUR STEWART, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The President referred to the death of the Society's old 

 member, Mr. Joseph Baxendell, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., for twenty- 

 four years one of its secretaries and the editor of its 

 publications up to his death, and stated that the Council 

 had made arrangements for the preparation of an account 

 of the deceased gentleman's life and work, and had passed 

 a resolution expressing sympathy with Mrs. Baxendell in 

 her bereavement. On the motion of Mr. H. H. Howorth, 

 M.P., seconded by Mr. James Smith, it was resolved that a 

 similar expression of sympathy should be forwarded from 

 the Society. 



Professor SCHUSTER alluded to the death of Professor 

 Kirchoff, of Berlin, chiefly known for his work on the 

 mathematical basis of Spectrum Analysis, and the author 

 of many memoirs on various subjects of Mathematical 

 Physics. 



Mr. H. H. Howorth, M.P., directed the attention of the 

 members to an old clock long preserved in the reading 

 room of the Chetham College Library. It was presented 

 by Nicholas Clegg in 1695, as appears from an entry in the 

 donation book of the College. The clock has on it a 

 barometer, which is still intact and is a very early example 

 of the instrument. The barometer and a thermometer (now 

 lost) are named with the clock in the notice of the gift. 



Mr. James Cosmo Melvill exhibited the original 

 printed draft of Warren Hastings' "Defence," copiously anno- 

 tated with marginal notes in the handwriting of the Right 

 Hon. Edmund Burke, being the copy the great orator held 

 in his hand at the time of his famous impeachment of the 

 former Governor-General of India, in February, 1788. This 



