Ainnial Ref07-t of the Council. 



MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, iqtj. 



The Society had at the beginning of the session an ordinary 

 membership of 154. Since then fifteen new members have 

 joined the Society, ten members have resigned, and four 

 members, Mr. Walter L. Behrens*, Mr. Alfred Brothers, 

 F.R.A.S., Mr. Arthur McDougall, B.Sc, and Professor 

 J. Dixon Mann, M.D., F.R.C.P., have died. Thus, at the 

 end of the session, there are 155 ordinary members of the 

 Society. The Society has further lost, by death, three honorary 

 members, viz. : Mons. J. H. Poincare, For.Mem. R.S., Professor 

 Edward Strasburger, D.C.L., For.Mem. R.S., and Professor 

 Ferdinand Zirkel, For.Mem. R.S. Memorial notices of these 

 gentlemen will appear with this report in the Memoirs and 

 Froceedifigs. 



The average attendance at the meetings of the Society 

 during the past session has been 32-4. This compares very 

 favourably with the^average of the previous session, 22-<^; and 

 with that of the session 1910-11, 21. 



Twenty-eight papers have been read at the meetings during 

 the year; 22 shorter communications have also been made. 



* The obituary notice will appear in the next volume. 



