liv A 7iimal Report of the Council. 



Society, which has done so much to advance the progress of 

 natural science in the past, may long continue to carry on its 

 successful work. 



FRANCIS JONES, 1 

 (Signed) \Hon. Secretaries. 



' -^ ^ CHARLES H. LEES, | 



On the occasion of the celebration of the Owens College 

 jubilee on March 1 2th and 13th, 1902, the Society was repre- 

 sented by the President, and the following congratulatory 

 address was presented : — 



[address]. 



To the President ajid Council of the Owens College. 



Gentlemen, 



The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, as 

 an elder sister in literature, philosophy, and science, desires to 

 ofifer you the heartiest felicitations upon the completion of fifty 

 years of active corporate life, and to express the earnest hope 

 that in the years to come the College may find an ever-widening 

 sphere of influence, and exercise an ever-increasing power of 

 usefulness. 



During these eventful fifty years, the relations between your 

 College and our Society have been agreeable, stimulating and 

 intimate ; your teaching staff has always found its representatives 

 among our most zealous members and ofificers ; and many of the 

 students you have trained have become valued members of our 

 Society. 



We witnessed with sympathy your early struggles in the 

 modest beginnings in Quay Street ; we watched with admiration 

 your persevering efforts to make the College worthy of the 

 position it was destined to fill in the district, and we rejoice with 

 you to-day in the possession of your present noble buildings and 

 splendid educational equipment. 



We pray that in the future, as in the past, it may be your 

 happy privilege to rely with full assurance upon the affection of 



