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The Council congratulate the members on the possession 

 of the life-like bust of the late Professor Hodgkinson^ which, 

 thanks to the liberality of a. few gentlemen, now adorns our 

 rooms; and they also notice that Mr. Eobert Rawson is 

 engaged in preparing a valuable Memoir of our deeply 

 lamented friend, the first half of which has already been 

 read before the Society. 



Of the Honorary and Corresponding Members, the Council 

 have to notice the deaths of the celebrated French philosopher, 

 M. Biot, and Dr. Peter Barlow, F.R.S. 



Notwithstanding the natural claims which the late very 

 successful meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, in Manchester, made upon the scientific 

 resources of our town, it is gratifying to observe no falling 

 ofi* either in the quality or quantity of the original communi- 

 cations presented to the Society during the past Session. 



The following is the list of Papers and Communications 

 laid before the Society in the Session 1861-62: — 



October Ut, 1861.— •" Observations of Comet I, 1861," by J. 

 BaxendeU, F.R.A.S. 



October 15th, 1861. — " On the Irregular Barometric Oscillations 

 at Geneva and on the Great St. Bernard, and their relations to the 

 Mean Temperatme and the Fall of Rain," by G. V. Vernon, 

 F.II.A.S. 



October 29th, 1861.—" On the Putrefaction of Blood," No. 1, by 

 Dr. B. Angus Smith, F.R.S. 



November 26th, 1861. — " Additional Observations on the Per- 

 mian Beds of South Lancashire," by E. W. Binney, F.R.S., &c. 



" On certain Scales of some Diurnal Lepidoptera," by Mr. John 

 Watson. 



December loth, IS61. — " Nouveau Systeme de Communication 

 Telegraphique, rendant impossible toute collision de trains sur les 

 chemins de fer," by Professor Baulet, of Persignan, communicated 

 by W. Fairbairn, LL.D., &c. 



