PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October ist, 1912. 



The President, Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes, M.A., drew attention to the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library, and a vote of thanks was 

 accorded the donors of the books upon the table. The following 

 were amongst the recent accessions to the Society's Library : 

 " Russia s Policy in Fifiland" by G. Evreinov, trans, from the 

 Russian by V. E. Marsden (8vo., London, 191 2), presented by 

 the Translator ; " Results of Meteorological Observations made in 

 New South Wales" dnx\v\^ 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, i8g8, 1899 

 and 1900, 1901 and 1902, under the direction of H. C. Russell 

 (Svo., Sydney, 1889-1892, 1900, 1903 and \^o^)," Results of Rain, 

 River, and Evaporation Observations made in New South Wales, 

 during 1888,1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896,1897, 

 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901-1902, under the direction of H. C. 

 Russell (8vo., Sydney, 1889-1904), and a collection of twenty- 

 seven meteorological papers by H. C. Russell, presented by 

 A. VV. Waters, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S. ; ''Flora cafensis," vol. 5, 

 sect, i., pi. iv., by Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer (8vo., London, 1912) 

 purchased ; " In afid Around the Morteratsch Glacier. . .," by J. Y. 

 Buchanan (8vo., n.p., 191 2), presented by the Author ; " Geologic 

 Atlas of the Ufiited States" ioVio^ Nos. 174-182 (la. fol., Washington, 

 D.C, 1910-1912), presented by the United States Geological 



