Second Meeting — November 1. 

 The President in the Chair. 



PRIVATE BUSINESS. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Eev. Dr. Hume, 

 for a copy of his treatise on the Learned Societies and Printing 

 Clubs of the United Kingdom, and for a copy of a Description 

 of the Antiquities found at Hoylake, fyc, with a Map. 



PUBLIC BUSINESS. 



Mr. J. B. Yates exhibited an ancient Pouncet Box, which 

 he thought illustrated Hotspur's speech in Henry IV. 



Dr. Duncan, on the part of Mr. Walmsley, exhibited a 

 Translation of a Prench Work, having engravings, on paper 

 manufactured by a new process, which rendered it sufficiently 

 opaque to receive impressions on both sides. 



Mr. J. Param read a Paper on "The General Principles of 

 Money, and a Method of Currency that would obviate Defal- 

 cation and Panic." 



"The General Principles of Money, and a Method of Currency 

 that would prevent Panic and Periodical Defalcations. 



"According to the present condition and course of nature, 

 mankind require, to supply their wants, and to obtain their 

 utmost well-being, a great amount and variety of material 

 commodities. 



"Nor is external nature less varied in its circumstances and 

 resources to supply them, than are the abilities and advan- 

 tages of men to procure what is wanted. Because of this 



