PROCEEDINGS 



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THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



General Meeting, October 6th, 190S. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. A. H. Gibson, M.Sc, Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Demonstrator 

 and Assistant Lecturer in Engineering in the University of 

 Manchester, was elected an ordinary member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 6th, igoS. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A., F.R.S., 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 : — '" First Report on Research 

 Work... on the Vitality of the Typhoid Bacillus in artificially 

 infected samples of yaw Thames, etc., 7vafer" by A. C. Houston 

 (fol., London, 1908), and ^^ Reports of Comtnittees io be considered 

 at a Meeting of the Board...jyth July, igo8" (fol., London, 

 1908), presented by the Metropolitan Water Board; ^^ The 

 Radioactive Sjcbstatices" by W. Makower (8vo., London, 1908), 

 presented by the author ; " Hope Reports" ed. by E. B. Poulton, 

 vols. 1-6 (8vo., Oxford, 1897-1908), presented by Dr. Henry 

 Wilde, F.R.S. ; ^'National Antarctic Expedition, igoi04, Meteoro- 

 logy, Pt. /.," and ''Physical Observations" 2 vols, (fol., London, 



