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Ordinary Meeting, February 4:th, 1862. 

 J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair., 



Mr. BiNNEY said that soon after the death of Professor 

 Eaton Hodgkinson^ F.R.S., one of the former Presidents of 

 the Society, and a man of science, of whom not only this 

 Society, hut the city of Manchester, has good reason to be 

 proud, a few of his friends and admirers gave a commission 

 to Mr. Slater, the sculptor, of London, to execute a bust of 

 the deceased, to be presented to this Society. As his valuable 

 memoirs, which gave to the world the formulae for solid and 

 hollow pillars of cast iron, now the basis of calculation on all 

 structures of that metal, were printed in our Transactions, it 

 was thought that the Hall of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Manchester was the fittest place for the bust of 

 their discoverer. 



The following gentlemen, viz., our worthy President, 

 J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., E. Schunck, F.R.S., James 

 Hey wood, F.R.S., John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.K.S., Joseph 

 Whitworth, F.R.S., R. P. Greg, F.G.S., Thomas Turner, 

 F.R.C.S., G. R. Stephenson, C.E., Robert Rawson, and E. W. 

 Binney, F.R.S., present the bust to the Society. In doing 

 so it would not be necessary for him to allude to the great 

 talents.and many virtues of the deceased, as his friend Mr. 

 Robert Rawson was now eng*aged in writing a Memoir, to 

 be communicated to the Society; but he could not omit 

 reading a letter which showed how the present President 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 hailed the election of Mr. Hodgkinson as the successor of the 

 late Dr. Holme to the chair of this Society. It was as follows : 

 — ^' Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, Conway, 

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