' To the Corjncil ia General, 

 and to the Treasurer and 

 Secretary in particular. 



The Secretary read to the Society a document which had been 

 "served personally" upon him by the Rev. Abraham Hume, LL.D., 

 D.C.L., and laid before the Council.* 



Mr. Byerley exhibited a coloured drawing of the Antiopa Hyalina, 

 found at Hilbre Island, and a fine specimen of the Nephrops Norvegiciis, 

 taken in the Dee. 



Mr. A. HigctINson exhibited a fine specimen of the Moschus 

 Javanicus, also a piece of packing paper made from the Triticum 

 Repens. 



Mr. T. Gray exhibited several valuable specimens of Australian 



• The following is a copy of the Reverend Doctor's " Notice," and the Council's reply:— 

 " Literary and " To the Secretary of the Literary and Philosophical Society 



Philosophical Society. of Liverjiuul. 



" \ o T I C E " ^'^' — ^ ^^^^ '"'^" credibly informed that it is the inten- 



tion of the Council of the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 to send to the luembers, along with the volume entitled 

 •Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool,' duriny the Forty-third Session, 185.3-51, a volume 

 " Rev. A. Hume, LL.D. which forms no part of said proceedings, viz., a private bonk 



on the Fauna of Liverpool, compiled and edited by Isaac 



•• 25lh November, 1851. Byerley, Esq. I have also been credibly informed that the 

 " Served personally by ^j^;^ private book is not a donation to the society, but that, 

 on the contrary, the Council have resolved to pay for its production out of the funds of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society which remained at the close of Session 185:5-1, and out of 

 such other monies as the Society may procure this session. I, therefore, being a member of 

 the said Society, and acting as the nature of the case requires, as well as under suitable 

 advice, do hereby issue diroiigh you the following Notice lo the several parties concerned ; 

 that is to say : — 



" To the Council in General. 

 "i. That the Society only authorised them to print papers actually read, or abstracts 

 of them. 



" 3. That they are not authorised to print even the ' Proceedings' at intervals of more 

 than one year. 



" 3. That no appeal has been made to the Society for any extraordinary expenditure 

 of funds according to the laws of the Society, io reference to the said Fauna of Liverpool. 

 " 4. That if any private book whaisoever be issued by the Council without such 

 authority, the act is a direct violation of the trust which they have voluntarily accepted, 

 and is also a violation of the Act of Parliament 17 and IS Victoria, cap. 112. 

 " To the Treasurer. 

 " 1 . Thai any payment whatever made on account of the said book will be made at his 

 personal risk and peril. 



"2. That Mr. Byerley himself, who had a personal and pecuniary interest in the 

 matter, was present at the meeting of Council at whicli this act was resolved upon, his 

 presence being necessary to constitute a quorum. 



" To the Secretary. 



" I. That I, and other members of the Society whoso sentiments I here represent, 

 require him to deliver lo us the Proceedings of the Society, No. VIIL, without any 

 such addilioM.or 



" 2. That iu case he fail to do SO, our acceptance of any additional printed matter. 



