PROCEEDINGS 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 5th, 1909. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the tables. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library : " A Discussion of Australian 

 Meteorology,'' by W.J. S. Lockyer (fol., London, 1909), presented 

 by the Solar Physics Committee, South Kensington ; " Guide 

 to the Specimens of the Horse Family .. .in the British Afuseutn 

 {Natural History) " (8vo., London, 1907), " Guide to the 

 Elephants {recent a7id fossil) i/i the British Museum {Natural 

 Historyy (8vo., London, 1908), '" Guide to the Gallery of Fishes 

 in the British Museum {Natural History) " (8vo., London, 1908), 

 " Guide to the Domesticated Animals {other than Horses) in the 

 British Mtiseum {Natitral History)" (8vo., London, 1908), 

 " Guide to the Exhibited Series of Insects in the British Museum 

 {Natural History)'' (8vo., London, 1908), ^' Guide to the Speci- 

 mens illustrating the Races of Mankind in the British Museum 

 {Natural History)" (8vo., London, 1908), '^ Guide to the Whales, 

 Porpoises, and Dolphins in the British Museum {Natural 

 History)^' (8vo., London, 1909), '•'Introduction to the Study of 

 Rocks" by L. Fletcher (8vo., London, 1909), and ''Synopsis of 

 the British Basidiomycetes," by W. G. Smith (8vo., London, 

 1908), presented by the Trustees of the British Museum; 



