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Annual Meeting, April 29th, 1873. 

 E. W. BiNNEY, F,RS., F.G.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following Report of the Council was read by one of 

 the Secretaries : — 



The Council have the satisfaction to report that a further 

 improvement has taken place in the financial position of the 

 Society, the Treasurer's account showing that the general 

 balance on the 31st of March last was £407 Is. 4d. against 

 £340 Os. 8 Jd. on the 31st of March, 1872. 



The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 

 Society on the 1st of April, 1872, was 174, and six new 

 members have since been elected ; the losses are, deaths, 4 ; 

 resignations, 4 ; and defaulters, 3. The number on the roll 

 on the 1st of April instant was, therefore, 169. The deceased 

 members are John Francis, George Cliff Lowe, Samuel 

 Emanuel Nelson, and Joseph Jordan. 



Mr. George Cliff Lowe, whose death was the result of an 

 accident in the United States, was known to many of our 

 members for his general and accurate acquaintance with the 

 natural sciences, but more particularly that of astronomy. 



Possessing a love of knowledge for its own sake, and a 

 comprehensiveness of mind to deal with other besides purely 

 physical subjects, he took great interest in the leading philo- 

 sophical questions of the present time, and his opinions were 

 generally to be found on the side of progress. Although not 

 a frequent contributor to the literature of science, Mr. Lowe 

 had an acuteness of perception combined with a degree of 

 manipulative and artistic skill which made his co-operation 

 and judgment much valued and sought for by others. 



We thus find Mr. Lowe's name associated with that of 

 Professor F. C. Calvert, F.R.S., in a joint paper " On the Ex- 

 pansion of Metals and Alloys," pubHshed in the Proceedings 

 Proceedings— Lit, & Phil. Society.— Vol. XII.— No. 12— Session 1872-3. 



