Annual Report of tJic Council. xxxv 



"and in the hemisphere in which this commemoration is 

 " being held." 



"Signed on behalf of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society (England), 



Harold B. Dixon, Fresidetit. 



Francis Jones, 1 Hon. 



Frederick William Gamble, P'^^''^^«'^'^^- 

 ''May I4tli, igoy." 



In response to a request from the Committee of the Science 

 Section of the Franco-British Exhibition asking for the loan of 

 apparatus and results of research work, the Council resolved 

 " that a reply be sent saying that the Council are prepared to 

 lend certain personal relics and apparatus used by Dalton in 

 his teaching, but not the apparatus used by Dalton or Joule in 

 their scientific researches." 



Sir Benjamin Baker, K.C.B., K.C.M.G, D.Sc, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., died suddenly from heart failure in his sixty-seventh year 

 on the 19th May, 1907, very soon after his return from Egypt, 

 where he had just advised the heightening of the Assuan dam. 

 Although his professional activity did not commence until after 

 the middle of the last century, his name will in the future probably 

 be coupled with those of the pioneers of modern engineering, for 

 like them he opened up new ground, like them, too, his training 

 was entirely a practical one. Although he was a most reliable 

 authority on all scientific subjects connected with engineering, 

 this was due to his natural inclination to examine each subject 

 as it presented itself, by studying such scientific enquiries as 

 were available and, where these failed, by making his own 

 experiments. His last act typically illustrated his character, for 

 when recently certain mathematicians asserted that his great 

 work, the Assuan dam, was not strong enough to have its height 

 increased, he re-examined the whole question from their point of 



