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The Secretary explained that the charge was voted 

 by the Society, according to usual form of having the 

 subject twice before them, and on both occasions aifirmed. 



The report was adopted and accounts passed. 



A ballot being taken for a new Council, the votes stood 

 thus :^For the five new men — John Grainger, B.A. 15, 

 Edward Fletcher 15, Robert Clay 15, Rev. John Robberds, 

 B.A. 13, and W. J. Lamport 13 ; for the nine others — 

 H. H. Higgins, M.A. 17, Isaac Byerley, P.L.S. 17, Dr. 

 Thomson 16, J. B. Edwards, Ph.D. 16, W. Ihne, Ph.D. 15, 

 T. C. Archer 15, Richard Brooke, F.S.A. 15, J. C. Redish 

 13, A. Higginson 10. The President's term not having 

 expired, Dr. Inman continued in that office. The Vice- 

 Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretary, were then elected, 

 viz.— Rev. H. H. Higgins, M.A,, T. C. Archer, W. Ihne, 

 Ph.D., Vice-Presidents ; Isaac Byerley, F.L.S., Treasurer ; 

 and David P. Thomson, M.D., Honorary Secretary. 



The following donations to the Society were announced : 

 Hansen's Tables de la Lune ; Earl of Dundonald on the 

 Bitumen of Trinidad; Reports of the Liverpool Compass 

 Committee ; Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 

 Newlands's Report on Baths and Wash-houses ; Pro- 

 ceedings of the Historic Society, vol. 9 ; Spencer's Report 

 on the Corporation Water Works ; Nevins and Edwards 

 on the Rivington Water — several copies for distribution ; 

 Proceedings of the Linneean Society ; Ditto Zoological 

 Society ; Ditto Chymists' Association ; Ditto Dublin 

 Natural History Society ; Ditto Dublin Geological So- 

 ciety ; Report of the Warwick Natural History Society ; 

 Provincial Magazine, 4 parts. 



Richard Brooke, Esq., F. S. A., exhibited a curious 

 antique bronze celt, considered to have been fabricated 

 by the ancient Britons. He stated that celts were far 

 from uncommon in Western Europe ; and that he had 

 seen many of them both in this countrv and in France ; 



