xlii Annual Report of the Council. 



MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, igi2. 



The Society had at the beginning of the session an ordinary 

 membership of 150. Since then eighteen new members have 

 joined the Society, eleven members have resigned, and three 

 members, Sir W. J. Crossley, MT.Mech.E., Mr. W. W. 

 KiRKMAN, and Professor Osborne Reynolds, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 have died. Thus, at the end of the session, there are 154 

 ordinary members of the Society. The deaths of Sir 

 Joseph D.^lton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., 

 and Professor A. Ladenburg, Ph.D., have removed two names 

 from the roll of honorary members of the Society. Memorial 

 notices of these gentlemen will be printed with this report in 

 the Memoirs and Proceedings. 



During the past session the average attendance at the 

 meetings of the Society has been 22-5, as compared with an 

 average attendance of 2 1 at the two preceding sessions. 



Twenty-five papers have been read at the meetings during 

 the session ; and fifteen shorter communications have been 

 made. 



The Society commenced the session with a balance in hand, 

 from all sources, of ^304. 7s. 8d., made up as follows : — 



