PROCEEDINGS 



Of THE 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 

 OP LIVERPOOL. 



SESSION XXXVI. 



MDCCCXLVII. 



October 18. 



Rev. JAMES BOOTH, LL.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A., President, 

 in the Chair. 



First Meeting of the Society for the Session 1846-1847. 



The Secretary read the following Report of the retiring 

 Council: — 



"The retiring Council, in compliance Math the 27 th law of 

 the Society, beg to present a summary of the Proceedings 

 during the past session. 



"At the commencement of the session, the Society consisted 

 of 116 ordinary, and 68 corresponding members. Twenty 

 ordinary and two corresponding members have been elected 

 during the session; and the Society has lost by death or 

 resignation, five members. The Society, therefore, now con- 

 sists of 131 ordinary and 70 corresponding members. Their 

 names, and the dates of their admission, will be printed in the 

 annual circular. Twice has the Society had to lament the loss 

 of a Vice-President by decease, of Dr. Tattershall and 

 Samuel Turner, old and distinguished members of the 



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