October \st, 191 8.] PROCEEDINGS. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



General Meeting, October ist, 1918. 



The President, Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.I.C., F.C.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. R. S. Willows, M.A., c\o Messrs. Tootal Broadhurst 

 Lee Co., Ltd., j(5, Oxford Street, Manchester, was elected an 

 Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October ist, 1918. 



The President, Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.I.C., F.C.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes, M.A., drew attention to the recent 

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

 accorded the donors of the books upon the table. The following 

 were amongst the recent accessions to the Society's Library : — 

 " Selections from the Prose, Verse and Sketches of the late Thomas 

 Kay, of Stockport'' (Svo., Stockport, 1918), presented by the 

 Trustees of Thomas Kay ; " Dece?inial J?idex to Chemical 

 Abstracts — Authors, L-Z (8vo., Easton, Pa., 1918), purchased; 

 and "^ Bibliography of Fishes," Vol. L, by Basford Dean, 

 enlarged and edited by Charles R. Eastman (8vo., New York, 

 1917), presented by the Trustees of The American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes, M.A., brought to the notice of Members 

 a number of copies of " Tlie Ladies' Diary " and " The Gentlemen's 

 Diary" for 1794 and later years. These diaries, in the Society's 

 possession, contain answers to mathematical questions written by 

 Dalton whilst a teacher at Kendal. 



Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.R.S., drew attention to a 

 paper read by Dr. Thomas Percival before the Society on 

 February i8th, 1784, and published in Volume II. of the 

 Memoirs (p. 114). 



