Annual Report of the Council. Iv 



your alumni, the esteem of your sister Colleges, and the 

 munificence of the community. 



Signed on behalf of the Society, 



CHARLES BAILEY, President. 

 FRANCIS JONES, | 

 CHARLES H. LEES, ^^'"- ^^'^'^'^'i''- 

 36, George Street, 



Manchester, 



March, 1 902. 



The Council have appointed the President and Mr. Francis 

 Jones representatives of the Society to serve on the General 

 Committee at the forthcoming Jubilee Meeting of the Man- 

 chester and Salford Sanitary Association. 



The Council arranged for the Wilde Lecture to be delivered 

 on Tuesday, February 25th, 1902, by Dr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S. 



The following letter has been received by the Hon. 

 Secretaries : — 



I4{h April, igo2. 

 Dear Sirs, 



I beg to inform you that at the Council Meeting of the 

 Microscopical and Natural History Section of this Society, held 

 this evening, it was resolved to discontinue the Section from 

 this date, and to r ecommend such of its members as are members 

 of the Society to make their communications on natural history 

 and microscopical subjects, &c., to the ordinary meetings of the 

 Society. The Treasurer of the Section, Mr. J. R. Ragdale, was 

 at the same time authorised to pay over to the Society the 

 balance standing at its credit with the St. Ann's Street Branch 

 of the Williams Deacons Banking Co., Ltd., which will amount 

 to ^w or j£,\2, and to hand over all the account books, 

 counterfoils of subscriptions received, and a list of subscriptions 

 still owing to the Section, the proceeds of which are hereby 

 transferred to the Society. These amount, roughly speaking, to 

 about ;^4. The Section was also possessed of 3 binocular 

 microscopes and their accessories, 4 cabinets of microscopic 



