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MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Aimual Report of the Council, April, igi4. 



The Society had at the beginning of the session an ordinary 

 membership of 155. Since then seven new members have 

 joined the Society, eleven members have resigned, and six 

 members, Sir William H. Bailky, INLI.Mech E., F.R.G.S., Mr. 

 Henry Erogden, F.G.S., M.I.Mech.E., Mr. Robert Cotton, 

 M.Sc, Mr. William H. Johnson, B.Sc, Professor John T. 

 NicoLSON, D.Sc, and Mr. W. H. Sutcliffe, F.G.S., have died. 

 There are, therefore, at the end of the session, 145 ordinary 

 members of the Society. The Society has also lost, by death, 

 three honorary members, viz. : Professor Paul F. Ascherson, 

 the Right Honourable The Lord Avebury, D.C.L., LL.U., 

 F.R.S.,and Sir John Murray, K.C.B., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S. 

 Memorial notices* of these gentlemen will appear with tliis 

 report in the Memoirs and Proceedings. 



Twenty-nine papers have been read at the meetings during 

 the year; eighteen shorter communications have also been made. 



The Society commenced the session with a balance in hand, 

 from all sources, of _;^263. is. 6d., made up as follows: — 



At credit of General Fund ^^142 2 7 



„ ,, Wilde Endowment Fund... 116 11 5 

 „ ,, Joule Memorial Fund 476 



Ijalance 31st March, T913 £,-^l> i 6 



* Obituary notices of Mr. W. L. Behrens, not included in the last 

 volume of the Memoirs, and of Mr. Thomas Thorp, who died on June 13th, 

 1914, are also appended. 



