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Memoirs of the late Dr. Bell, hy James Currie, 

 M. D. addrejfed to the Presidents and Mem- 

 bers of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of Manchester. * Read March 23, 

 1785. 



GENTLEMEN, 



'T"^ H E refpeft which you have exprefied for 

 ■*• our late member, Dr. George Bell, by the 

 Refolutions of the Society, which occafion this 

 addrefs, cannot fail to be highly pleafing to all 

 thofe who honour his memory. To me this at- 



• At a meeting of the Literary and Philofophical Society 

 of Manchefter, held February 4, 1784. 



1 . Refolved, as a mark of refpeft to the memory of George 

 Bell, M. D. That a tranflation be made of his Inaugural 

 Dilfertation de Phyfiologia Plantarum — That forae brief 

 Memoirs of the Author be prefixed to it, and that the whole 

 be inferted in the Journals of this Society. 



2. That James Currie, M. D. the friend of Dr. Bell, 

 and an Honorary Member of this Society, be requefted to 

 make the tranflation, and furnifh the Memoirs fpecified in 

 the above refolution. 



3. Refolved, that a copy of thefe refolutions be tranf- 

 mitted to Dr. Currie, by the afling fecretary of the Society. 



tentioa 



