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EXTRAORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution'. — March 31, 185-i. 



JOSEPH DICKINSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 



It was moved by Mr. Heath, and seconded by Mr. Picton — 



" That the ' Report of the Delegates, from the four Learned Societies 

 which pubUsh Transactions, on the subject of Union,' be adopted, with 

 the exception of the clause, ' The committee thuik it premature to suggest 

 a name for the enlarged society; but they strongly recommend the 

 avoidance of all the names of the uniting societies, which is reserved 

 for fui-ther consideration."' 



Amendment moved by Mr. J. B. Yates, and seconded by Mr. W. 

 Rathbone — 



" That the Literary and Philosophical Society will have great pleasure 

 in receiving the Histoiic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire upon the 

 same terms on which it received the Natural Histoiy Society ten years 

 ago, but that the Literary and Philosophical Society cannot consent 

 to an alteration of the name under which it has heretofore worked well, 

 and which appears perfectly adapted to the objects aimed at by the 

 Society." 



The amendment was put from the chair, wlien there were— for, 

 twenty -three votes ; against, twenty-six. The original motion was then 

 put and carried, there bemg votes— /or, twenty-eight; against, eleven. 



It was moved by Dr. Inman, seconded by Dr. Hume, and carried 

 unanimously — 



" That Edward Heath, Thomas Sansom, John Hartnup, and J. P. G. 

 Smith, Esqrs. ; Dr. W. Ihne, Dr. Dickinson, J. B. Yates, Esq., 

 Dr. Inman, Robert M'Andrew, Esq., and Dr. Thomson, be elected as 

 delegates, in order to carry out further an-angements for the proposed 

 amalgamation with one or more of the other learned societies, and report 

 thereon, with a sketch of amended laws." 



