PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October ist, 1907. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library : ^'- Reports of the Conunission... 

 for the Investigation of Mediterranean Fever^^ Pts. 6, 7 (8vo., 

 London, 1907), presented by the Royal Society of London; 

 '■^ Ha7idbook of American Indians, NortJi of Mexico," edited by 

 F. W. Hodge, Part L (8vo, Washington, 1907), presented by 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology ; " Catalogue of the Gleave 

 Bro7it'e Collectio7i at Moss Side Free Library" by J. A. Green 

 (8vo., Moss Side, 1907), presented by the Manchester Public 

 Library ; '■'■ Astrographic Catalogue igoo-o. Oxford section Dec. + 

 2^ to+j2° "...[prepared] under the direction of H. H. Turner... 

 vol. 2 (4to., Edinburgh, 1906), presented by the University 

 Observatory of Oxford ; " The Licensed Trade," by E. A. Pratt 

 (Svo., London, 1907), presented by the author; ^^ Collected 

 Mathematical ]Vorks of G. TV. Hill," vol. 4 (4to., Washington, 

 1907), presented by the Carnegie Institution; "Batch Genea- 

 logica," by T. W. Balch (4to., Philadelphia, 1907), presented 

 by the author; ^'■Festschrift Theodor Curtius zxmi 2^ flihrigen 

 Doktor-Jubildiun gewidmetP Arbeiten...von G. Bradig [and 

 others] (Svo., Heidelberg, r907), presented by the Chemisches 

 Institut der Univ. Heidelberg; '■'■ Flora Capensis," ed. by Sir 



