Annual Report of the Council. xxix 



Natural Resources of the State of Indiana, Indianapolis; Societe 

 des Amis de I'Universite de Clermont-Ferrand. 



Early last summer the attention of the Council was called to 

 the state of Dalton's tomb in Ardwick Cemetery. Owing to lack 

 of repair the paving round the tomb had sunk, allowing water to 

 lie, and the railings were rusted from want of paint. The 

 Council, deeming the proper preservation of Dalton's tomb a 

 matter of concern to the Society, appointed a Committee to raise 

 funds to enable them to put the monument in a thorough state 

 of repair. The Committee issued a circular to members of the 

 Society and others asking for subscriptions for this object, 

 further publicity being kindly given by the local press, and sub- 

 scriptions were received to the amount of ^54. los. od. During 

 last summer the repairs were executed and the railings were 

 scraped and painted, and the Committee have great pleasure in 

 reporting that after payment of expenses they have a balance of 

 ^30. This sum the Council have undertaken to invest and 

 administer in accordance with the object of the fund. A balance 

 sheet with a list of subscribers is appended. 



The Society was represented by Mr, R. F. Gwyther on the 

 occasion of the Jubilee of the Professorship of Sir George Gabriel 

 Stokes, Bart. The address sent to Sir George Stokes, and his 

 reply, were as follow : — 



[Address.] 



To Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., 



Fellow and President of Pembroke College, 



M.A., LL.D., Sc.D., 



Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in the 



University of Cambridge. 



The members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, in offering their heartiest congratulations on the occasion 

 of the Jubilee of your tenure of the Lucasian Professorship, are 

 at one with the whole scientific world in expressing their admira- 

 tion of the signal services which, during these fifty years, you 

 have rendered to the cause of Science. 



Although the occasion is rare, we do not celebrate to-day 

 merely length of years, since to you it has been given, by opening 



