PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



DURING THE 



FORTY. SIXTH SESSION, 1850-57. 



ANNUAL MEETING 



Held at the Royal Institution, Octobei' '20th,. 1856. 



ROBERT M'ANDREW, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members : — 

 James Johnston M'Andeew. 

 Rev. John Herbert Jones, M.A. 

 John Birkbeck Nevins, M.D. 

 The following resignations and removals from list, chiefly caused by 

 change of residence and inability to attend the meetings, were 

 announced : — 



By resignation Dr. Cohen, Rev. H. H. Hampton, George Hunt, 



^^^ Joseph King, Jun., William Lassell, Jan., Lieut 



changeofresidence. ^o^d, Dr. Mitchell, Rev. Henry Griffiths, Rev. J. 



Porter, John Roberts, Dr. Ramsay, James 0. Ryder, 



W. W. Rundell, and C. F. Salt. 



Removed from roll 



by operation of Thomas Doming Hibbert, and George Melly, Jun. 

 the laws. 

 The following 



REPORT OF THE RETIRING COUNCIL 

 was then read and unanimously adopted : — 



At the opening of another Session, the Council meet the Society 

 with one source of regret, and that is the retirement of the President, 

 after a lengthened period of zealous attachment to its interests ; but 

 though Mr. M 'Andrew's future abode will give him enlarged inter- 

 course with Societies and men of science, we have the assurance that 

 this Society shall receive his warmest support. 



