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SEVENTH ORDINARY MEETING, 



Held at the Royal Institdtiox, ou tbe 26th January, 1857, 



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



The following were elected Ordinary Members : — 



William Clay, 



David Hutton, 



Dadabhai Neoroji. 

 The Chairman communicated, that in accordance with the unani- 

 mous vote of the Society, to convey, in the form of an address, to 

 William Brown, Esq., M.P., its strong sense of his noble liberality, 

 in offering, at his own cost, to erect a Public Library and Museum 

 worthy of Liverpool, he had conveyed the Society's wish to Mr. Brown, 

 and begged to know when he would be pleased to receive the deputation 

 from the Council. Mr. Brown fixed Saturday, the 24th, and with his 

 wonted politeness, invited the deputation to dine with him on that day. 

 The deputation consisted of Dr. Innian, president. Dr. Ihne, Mr. T. C. 

 Archer, Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A., vice-presidents; Mr. Byerley, 

 treasurer, (absent ou the occasion.) and Dr. D. P. Thomson, honorary 

 secretary. Shortly after their arrival at Richmond Hill, the following 

 address was presented : — 



TO WILLIAM BROWN, Esq., M.P. 



SiE, — The. Literary and Philosophical Society have watched with great interest 

 the steps taken, duiing the last few yeai-s, towards the formation of a Public 

 Library and Museum in Liverpool. They have been gratified to sec the spirit 

 with which the proposal for the establishment of such an useful institution was 

 conceived by a number of enlightened friends of the diffusion of knowledge, 

 adopted by the Town Council, and supported by the hearty approval of the whole 

 community. 



But all that has hitherto been done, either by the zeal, activity, and Uberality 

 of indiwduals, or by the public spu-it of the municipal authorities, has been so 

 completely thrown into the shade by the act of jirincely munificence which you, 

 sii', have had the wisdom to conceive, and the magnanimity to undertake, that 

 henceforth your name wiU pre-eminently be associated with that most useful 

 institution, and will be stamped upon the noble building which you have under- 

 taken to erect for the adornment and benefit of our town. 



You have thus secured an indefeasible claim to the admu-ation and gratitude 

 of all your fellow- citizens ; and we, the members of the Literai-y and Philosophical 

 Society, should be wanting ia our duty to the cause of learning which we 

 endeavour to promote, if we failed to acknowledge yoiu- generous sentiments and 

 noble motives, and to express our appreciation of an act of munificence surpassing 

 all that the most sanguine could expect to be done by any one of oiu* feUow- 

 citizens single-handed. 



