ii Proceedings. {^October 6th, igoS. 



1 90S), presented by the Royal Society of London ; '■'Key to the 

 Classifications of the Patent Specifications of France, Germany, 

 etc.,^' 2nd ed. ( i6mo., London, 1905) ; " Subject List of Works on 

 the Fine and Graphic Arts"... {i6mo, London, 1904), '■'Class 

 List and Index of the Periodical Publications...,''' 2nded. (i6mo., 

 London, 1906), "Subject List of Works on Agriculture, etc." 

 (16 mo., London, 1905), " Subject List of Works on Heat and 

 Heat-engines" (i6mo., London, 1905), " Subject Lists of Works 

 on Aerial Navigation atid Meteorology" (i6mo., London, 1905), 

 '■' Subject List of Works on Military and Naval Arts'' (i6mo., 

 London, 1907), "■ Subject List of Works on the Laivs of Indus- 

 trial Property" (i6mo., London, 1900), " Subject List of Works 

 of Reference, Biography, Bibliography, etc." (i6mo., London, 

 1908), presented by the Patent Office, London; "Monthly 

 Meafi Values of Barometric Pressure for yj... Stations "... (foL, 

 London, 1908), presented by the Solar Physics Committee, 

 London ; and " Canada's Fertile Northland," with " Maps," 

 2 vols. (4to., Ottawa, 1907), presented by the Minister of the 

 Interior, Canada. 



The President submitted to the members the following 

 Address of congratulation to the University of Oxford, to be 

 presented by him to that body on October Sth, the occasion of 

 the celebration by them of the Jubilee of the Oxford University 

 Museum : — 



To the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. 

 " We the Council of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 " sophical Society, desire to offer to the University of Oxford 

 "our greetings and congratulations on the celebration of 

 " the Jubilee of the University Museum. 



" Meeting, as our Council does, in the workroom of 

 "John Dalton, we think it not unfitting to recall that the 

 "concepton of the chemical elements on which Dalton 

 " founded his Atomic Theory, originated with Robert Boyle 

 "at Oxford; and that the recognition by chemists of the 

 "diatomic molecules of Avogadro (which reconciled the 

 " conflicting views of Dalton and of Gay-Lussac) was largely 



