February ph, rpo2.] PROCEEDINGS. xxi> 



General Meeting, February 4th, 1902. 

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



Mr. N. KoLP, Victoria Park, Manchester, was elected ai 

 ordinary member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 4th, 1902. 

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



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

 books upon the table. 



The President referred to the loss sustained by the Society 

 in the death of Professor Cato M. Guldberg, of Christiania, 

 elected an honorary member in April, 1894. 



The President nominated Mr. Thomas Thorp and Dr. 

 George Wilson to be Auditors of the Society's accounts for the 

 session 1901-1902. 



The Presidf:nt also announced that Dr. Henry Wilde, 

 F.R.S , had consented to deUver the Wilde Lecture, entitled "On 

 the Evolution of the Mental Faculties in relation to some 

 Fundamental Principles of Motion," on February 25th, 1902. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson drew attention to a paragraph in 

 Mr. Elijah Helm's "Chapters in the History of the Manchester 

 Chamber of Commerce," wherein it is stated that as early as the 

 first half of the 17th century cotton was brought from Cyprus 

 and Smyrna to London and thence to Lancashire, where it was 

 spun by hand on the single spindle frame. Mr. Nicholson 

 pointed out that most of the cotton used in Lancashire at that 

 time probably came from the West Indies, and, as confirming 

 this, he read a letter written from London by his great grandfather, 

 Robert Nicholson, to his brother James in Liverpool, in 1749, 



