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necessarily heavy expenditure incurred in the printing 

 of the Proceedings and of the volume I., 3rd series, 

 of Memoirs, which is now ready for distribution. This 

 improvement is mainly owing to the fact that the members 

 have almost unanimously supported the Council in their 

 proposal to raise the subscription to £%. 2s. per annum, as 

 the only available means of enabling the Society successfully 

 to carry out its objects. The number of ordinary members 

 on the books last year was 207 ; it is now 204. Since the 

 last Annual Meeting seven members have resigned, eight 

 new members have been elected, and four ordinary members 

 have died, viz., Professor Eaton Plodgkinson, F.R.S.; Dr. 

 M. Satterthwaite ; Mr. Absolam Watkin; and Mr. George 

 Woodhead. 



Professor Hodgkinson's high scientific eminence as an 

 experimentalist and as the founder of the principles of 

 many branches of mechanical science, is now universally 

 acknowledged ; and the members will be proud to recollect 

 that our illustrious townsman was for 41 years connected 

 with the Society, and that it was through the medium of our 

 Memoirs that the greater part of Hodgkinson's important 

 researches were made known. 



The following is the list of Papers published by Professor 

 Hodgkinson in the Society's Memoirs : — 



(1) Vol. iv., 2nd series, p. 225. — " On the Transverse Strain and 

 Strength of Materials," read March 22nd, 1822. 



(2) Vol. v., second series, p. 354. — " On the Forms of the Cate- 

 nary in Suspension Bridges," read February 8th, 1828. 



(3.) Vol. v., second series, p. 384. — " On the Chain Bridge at 

 Broughton," read February 8th, 1828. 



(4) Vol. v., second series, p. 398. — "A few Remarks on the 

 Menai Bridge," read December 12th, 1828. 



(5) Vol. v., second series, p. 407. — " On the Strength and best 

 ■ Formes of Iron Beams," read April 2nd, 1830. 



(6) Vol. vii., second series. — ^ " On the Measure of Moving 

 Force," read April 30th, 1844. 



