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November 16. 



The Rev. J. BOOTH, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Rev. Charles White Underwood, B. A. ; Mr. 

 Joseph King, Jun., and Mr. George Padley were elected 

 Members of the Society. 



The Society then proceeded to elect, by ballot, a Vice- 

 President, to succeed the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, lately 

 deceased ; when John Cunningham, Esq., F. G. S., was 

 declared duly elected. 



The usual notice was then given, that the Society would 

 proceed, at the next meeting, to supply the vacancy in the 

 council, caused by the election of Mr. Cunningham, to the 

 office of Vice-President. 



The Treasurer presented a detailed statement of his 

 accounts, duly audited, when there appeared a balance in 

 his hands, to the credit of the Society, of £ 245. 16s. 4d. 



It was ordered, that the Report of the Treasurer be duly 

 entered on the minutes. 



Dr. Hume exhibited a Zoophyte from the West Indies, 

 of a species he believed unknown. 



Mr. Cunningham exhibited the remains of vegetables 

 found in the new red sand-stone, at Toxteth Park, in the 

 excavations taking place there, supposed to be specimens of 

 the Lepidodendron. 



Mr. Baines then read a paper — " On the Effects likely 

 to be produced on Agriculture, and on the condition of the 

 people in Great Britain and Ireland, by the existing disease 

 in the Potato crops." 



