XX Proceedings. [January yth, igo2. 



General Meeting, January 7th, 1902. 



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



Mr. Michael LoNGRiDGEjM.A., M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineer 

 to the Engine, Boiler, and Employers' Liability Insurance 

 Co., Ltd., Manchester ; Mr. Ernest F. Lange, Manager of the 

 Steel Department of Messrs. Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd. 

 Gorton : and Dr. David B. Hewitt, Chemical Manufacturer, 

 Northwich, were elected ordinary members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 7th, 1902. 

 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. Amongst the recent donations 

 were the following : — " Prodronms Florae Batavae" Editio 

 altera, Vol. i, pars i ( 8vo., Nijmegen, 1901), pubHshed by the 

 Nederlandsche Botanische Vereeniging, and presented through 

 the Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Weten- 

 schappen ; Macoun's " Catalogue of Canadian Birds" Part I., 

 (8vo., Ottawa, 1900), presented by the Geological Survey of 

 Canada; "Ze Opere di Galileo Galilei^' Vol. 11 (4to., 

 Firenze, 1901), presented by the Ministero della Istruzione 

 Pubblica, Italy ; and Gegenbaur's " Vergleichende Anatomie der 

 Wirbclthietc^^' Bd. 2 (8vo., Leipzig, 1901), presented by the 

 author. 



The Pre SI dent referred to the loss sustained by the Society 

 through the death of Dr. Henry Browne, one of its oldest 

 members, having been elected in January, 1846. 



The President also announced that the Society was indebted 

 to Dr. Edward Schunck, F.R.S., for a mural tablet, placed in 

 the Secretaries' room, bearing the following inscription : — "This 

 room was the laboratory of John Dalton : here his great 

 discoveries were made, and here he conceived and worked out 

 his atomic theory." 



