THE LIVERPOOL 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



ANNUAL MEETING— Forty-seventh Session. 



Royal Institution, October 19tli, 1857. 



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



The Secretary commenced the business of the evening 

 by reading the following report : — 



The retiring Council have but a brief report to present 

 at the opening of another Session. That which has 

 closed was very successful, a larger number of papers 

 than usual having been offered, and these at an. earlier 

 period than is generally the case, thereby considerably 

 furthering the sessional business. 



The society lost by death two distinguished correspond- 

 ing members — the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesmere, K.G. 

 and the Rev. Dr. Scoresby, F.R.S. ; and by the same 

 cause, two of its ordinary members — Richard Vaughan 

 Yates, Esq., and Robert Bickersteth, Esq. Its strength 

 of members compared with that at the beginning of the 

 last Session may be thus stated : 



Ordinary members on the roll at last annual 



meeting 140 



Ordinary members elected since then 29 



Total ordinary members enrolled 1G9 



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