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FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING, 



Held at the Royal Institution, 1st, December 1856, 

 THOMAS INMAN, Esq., M.D., President, in the chair. 



The resignatiou of Mr. James Miller Shain was received. 



The Rev. H. H. Higgins exhibited some prepared specimens of 

 Foreign and English Fancywoods, which led to conversations on the 

 strength of various timbers, and the advantages of poplar for flooring, 

 that wood being a bad conductor of heat. 



Mr. T. C. Archer exhibited sections of the Phytolacea decandia 

 and Phytolacea arhoren, showing that the concentric rings were cot, as 

 in " exogens," of annual growth. 



Dr. Thomson exhibited one of a pair of saddle-bags, captured at the 

 Redan, of Sebastopol, remarkable for its capaciousness and strength, 

 the property of the Hon. Major Plunkett. Also a Hussar "s Cloak of 

 great weight and impervious to cold, taken from a Russian in the 

 Crimea. The exterior was of brown coloured leather ornamented with 

 stripes of bright red, and the inside was lined with sheep-skin. 



The Rev. John Robberds, B.A., read a paper entitled "A Man- 

 chester Newspaper a Century Ago ;" quoting to the Society numerous 

 passages of local interest, and pointing out the peculiarities of the 

 publication, and style of newspapers at the time. 



FIFTH ORDINARY MEETING, 



Held at the Royal Institution, 15th December, 1856,' 



THOMAS INMAN, Esq., M.D., President, in the chair. 



The resignation of Mr. James McCann was received. 

 The following were elected Ordinary Members : — 



Rev. James England, M.A. 



Carl Retzlag, Ph.D. 



Rev. F. Malleson, B.A. 

 Dr. Thomson exhibited a model of Goodhall's Patent Grinding and 

 LovigatiDg Machine. 



