PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October yth, 1913- 



The President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, K.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. C. T.. Barnes, M.A., called attention to the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library, and a vote of thanks was 

 passed to the donors of the books upon the table. The following 

 works were included in the recent accessions to the Society's 

 Library : ''A Bibliography of the Tunicnia" i46g-igio, by John 

 Hopkinson (8vo., London, 191 3), and " The British Parasitic 

 Cepepoda'^ Vols, i and 2, by T. and A. Scott (8vo., London, 

 1 913), published by the Ray Society, purchased ; " The Leeches 

 of Mifinesota" (Zoological Series, No. V.), by H. F. Nachtrieb 

 and others (8vo., Minneapolis, 191 2), presented by the Geo- 

 logical and Natural History Survey, Minnesota ; " Geologic 

 Alias of the United States" Folios Nos. 183, 184 and 186 (fol. 

 Washington, D.C, 191 2), presented by the United States 

 (ieological Survey ; " Descriptive account of the Chinese, Tibetan, 

 Mongol and Japanese Books ifi the Newberry Library," by B. 

 Laufer (8vo., Chicago, 111 , 1913), presented by the Newberry 

 Library, Chicago ; " Observaciones en la Mina Aguila, 5-,200 w. . ." 

 por Walter Knoche, and " Annuario Meteorolbgico de Chile," 

 191 1 [2 parts]. (Publicaciones Nos. i and 3) (fol, Santiago de 

 Chile, 191 1 and 12), presented by the Institutio Central Meteoro- 

 l(5gico y Geofisico de Chile, Santiago ; '■'' Hoekijzerverbindingen 



