xii Proceedings. {December loth, igoi. 



General Meeting, December loth, igor. 



Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Herbert Massey, Merchant, Burnage ; Mr. Howard 

 Spence, Chemical Manufacturer, Sale ; Mr. F. Baden Benger, 

 F.C.S., F.I.C., Manufacturing Chemist, Knutsford; Dr. Herbert 

 Ramsden, Ch.B., Dobcross, near Oldham ; Mr. Harold 

 Adamson, Engineer, Hyde ; and Miss Isa L. Hiles, M.Sc, 

 Science Mistress at the Manchester High School for Girls, 

 were elected ordinary members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, December loth, 1901. 

 Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. The recent accessions included 

 Newstead's " Monograph of the Coccidce of the British Isles" 

 Vol. I. (8vo., London, 1901), purchased from the Ray Society. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill exhibited the original MS. of the 

 Botanical Guide to the flowering Plants . . . found indigenous 

 within sixteen miles of Manchester (1849), by Richard Buxton, 

 of which a second edition was published ten years later. He 

 explained that this interesting relic had first been bequeathed by 

 the author (who died in 1865) to the late Mr. E. W. Binney, 

 F.R.S., and that he, in turn, left it to the late Mr. Thomas 

 Rogers, an Associate of the Microscopical and Natural History 

 Section of this Society. On Mr. Rogers' sudden death on May 

 30th, 1 90 1, his botanical collections (extremely rich in Crypto - 

 gamia) came into Mr. Melvill's possession, this MS. being 

 acquired at the same time, and Mr. Melvill had asked the 

 Council to accept it as being worthy of preservation in the 

 Society's archives. 



