XXX. Annual Report. 



MANCHEvSTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 1922. 



Membership. 



The Society had at the beginning of the Session an ordinary 

 membership of 343. Since then 28 new members have joined 

 the Society. Twenty-six members have resigned, nine have 

 been removed from the list, one has been elected an honorary 

 member, and three members (Professor A. Sheridan Delepine, 

 M.B., CM., M.Sc, Dr. Edward Hopkinson, M.A., M.P., 

 M.Inst.C.E., and Mr. Herbert Porter) h^ve died. There are, 

 accordingly, at the end of the session 332 ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



The Society has lost by death three honorary members (Mr. 

 J. G. Baker, F.R.S., L.L.S., Dr. Julius Elster and Professor 

 Leo Koenigsberger, Ph.D.), and one (Professor Max Fur- 

 bringer) resigned. On the nomination of the Council, four new 

 honorary members (Professor Horace Lamb, M.A., Sc.D., LL.D., 

 F.R.S., Sir Ernest Rutherford, M.A., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Sir Arthur Schuster, Sc.D., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., and Professor 

 G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., Litt.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.) have 

 been elected, making a total of 34 honorary members at the end 

 of the session. Mrs. C. W. Palmer has been elected a corres- 

 ponding member of the Societ}^ 



Student Associates. 

 Under the regulations governing the admission of Student 

 Associates, which came into force at the beginning of the Session 

 1921-22, the Council has admitted ten Student Associates. 



Meetings, 1921-22. 



Eighteen papers have been read at the vSociety's ordinary 

 meetings during the 3^ear ; nine shorter communications have 

 also been made. In addition, eight meetings and a Soiree have 

 been held by the Chemical Section. 



The second " Young People's Meeting " was held on January 

 9th, the audience being even larger than that present at the 

 first meeting in January, 1921. Short illustrated addresses were 



