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Annual Meeting, April 30th, 1872. 



E. W. BixXNEY, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 



Monsieur A. Tr(icul, Member of the Institute of France; 

 Professor W. P. Schimper, of the University of Strasburg; 

 Professor Julius Sachs, of Wurtzburg ; H. C. Watson, F.L.S.; 

 Professor T. H. Huxley, F.R.S. ; John Stenhouse, LL.D., 

 F.R.S.; Professor Aclolph Quetelet, of the Royal Observatory, 

 Brussels; and the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., F.R.S., Pro- 

 vost of Trinity College, Dublin, were elected Honorary 

 Members of the Society, 



The following Report of the Council was re ad by one of 

 the Secretaries : — 



The Council refer with pleasure to the very satisfactory^ 

 condition of the Society's finances as shown by the Trea- 

 surer's account, the general balance on the 31st of March 

 last being £340 Os. SJd! against £287 19s. Ikl. on the 31st 

 of March, 1871. 



The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 

 Society on the 1st of April, 1871, was 169 ; of these two 

 have resigned, and one has been declared a defaulter ; eight 

 new members have since been elected, and the number on 

 the roll on the 1st of April instant was, therefore, 174. 



The Council have received from Mr. R. D. Darbishire, the 

 Secretary of the Natural History Museum Commissioners, 

 and Member of the Council of Owens College, a letter dated 

 the 22nd instant, communicating the particulars of a bene- 

 faction which the late Natural History Society provided for 

 the promotion of the Study of Natural History in Man- 

 chester under the guardianship of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society. 

 PEOCEEDiNas— Lit. & Phil. Society.— Vol. XI.— No. 14.— Session 1871-2. 



