PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 3rd, 1905. ' 



The President, Sir William H. Bailey, in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's lAbra.ry :--'■' Aidum of Philippine 

 Types,'' by D. Folkmar (obi. 8vo., Manila, 1904), presented by 

 the American Museum of Natural History; '•'■Flora Capensis,'' 

 vol. 4, sect. I, pt. I, by Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer (8vo., London, 

 1905), purchased ; " CEuvres Completes,''' de C. Huygens, 

 tome X. (4to., La Haye, 1905), presented by the Societe 

 Hollandaise des Sciences ; " History of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society of Nezvcastk-upon-Tyne," by R. S. Watson (4to., 

 London, 1897), presented by the author ; " The British Tuni- 

 cata," vol. I, by J. Alder and A. Hancock (8vo., London, 1905), 

 purchased ; " Piat>porlen van de Cominissie in Nederlatidsch Indie, 

 voor Oudheidkundig Onderzoek op Java en Aladoera" 1901, 1902, 

 1903 (8vo., Batavia, 1905), i)resented by the Bataviaasch 

 Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen ; " Contributions 

 to Practical Medicine" by Sir J. Sawyer, 4th ed. (8vo., Bir- 

 mingham, 1904), presented by the author; '■^Reports of the 

 Sleeping Sickness Commission" Nos. 5, 6 (8vo,, London, 1905"^ 

 presented by the Royal Society. 



