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but for the keen and encouraging interest which, up to the 

 end of his long Hfe, he uniformly manifested in the work of 

 the younger members, even when it lay outside his own 

 special lines of research. 



The Council has keenly felt the heavy loss sustained by 

 the Society in the death of Professor BALFOUR Stewart, 

 only a few weeks after the opening of the session of his first 

 year as President. Professor Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 at the request of his colleagues, has undertaken to prepare 

 an account of Dr. Stewart's life and work, which will appear 

 as a memoir in the volume of Memoirs and Proceedings 

 for the session now closing. 



Mr. Charles Moseley was elected a member of the 

 Society only near the end of the session \'^'$>6-y^ and as his 

 death occurred before the opening of the subsequent 

 session, his connection with the Society was of very brief 

 duration. During the interval, however, he gave evidence 

 of his warm sympathy with its objects by the prominent 

 part he took in the work of entertaining the British 

 Association during its third visit to Manchester. Mr. 

 Moseley was born in Manchester in 1839, ^^^^^ died at his 

 residence, Grangethorpe, Rusholme, October ist, 1887. He 

 was remarkable for kindness and affability, combined with 

 extraordinary energy. The earlier part of his career was 

 devoted to the development of his business as an india- 

 rubber manufacturer, at the Chapelfield Works. His first 

 appearance in public life was on his acceptance of the office 

 of Chairman of the Manchester Aquarium Company, with 

 the hope of rescuing that institution from its embarrassments. 

 During this period he gave a cordial, appreciative, and 

 enterprising support to every attempt to maintain the 

 Aquarium as a place of educational recreation and scientific 

 study for the people of Manchester. The writer of this 

 notice was closely associated with Mr. Moseley in the efforts 

 then made, and remembers with peculiar pleasure his frank 



