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once proceed to endeavour to sell the Peter-street site, to 

 be delivered up in June, 1878, for money or for rent, as 

 may seem best. In the latter case it had been agreed be- 

 tween the commissioners and the college that the college 

 should pay £60 per annum as interest at 4 per cent, on 

 £1,500 until the principal shall have been paid over to the 

 society. The Council have now to report that the Peter-street 

 site has not yet been sold, but on the 20th of November last 

 a letter was addressed by Mr. Darbishire to Mr. H. A. Hurst, 

 the treasurer of the Microscopical and Natural History Sec- 

 tion, stating that by an arrangement made on that day 

 between the commissioners of the Peter-street Museum and 

 the Owens College the Museum Trust in the hands of the 

 college will pay to the Philosophical Society, for the present, 

 interest upon the sum of £1,500 at 4 per cent, from that date. 

 The first half-yearly payment will therefore become due on 

 the 20th of May next. 



At a meeting of the Council held on the 7lh of January 

 last, a committee was appointed to consider and report 

 upon the desirability of incorporating the society, and of 

 acceding to an application of the Manchester Geological 

 Society for permission to hold its meetings and keep its 

 library within this society's buildings. Resolutions em- 

 bodying the recommendations of this committee will be 

 submitted this evening for the approval of the members of 

 the society. 



In May of last year, Dr. R, Angus Smith, F.R.S., a vice- 

 president of this society, attended on behalf of the society 

 the centenary celebration of the foundation of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Belgium, and a medal has this day 

 been received commemorative of this interesting event. 



The following papers and communications have been 

 read at the ordinary and sectional meetings of the society 

 during the session now closing : — 



October \st, 1872. — " On the Composition of Ammonium Amal- 

 gam," by 11. Routledge, B.Sc. 



