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A TRIBUTE 
TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE 
PRESIDENT 
OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
OF MANCHESTER; 
BY 
WILLIAM HENRY, M.D. F.R.S. 
&c. &e. 
(Read April 11th, 1817.) 
a 
Tur following Tribute to the Memory of 
the late President of the Literary and Philo- 
sophical Society has been drawn up, in com-. 
pliance with a request, expressed to the 
writer from the chair, at an early meeting: 
during the present session. It. would, on 
some accounts, have been more satisfactory, 
to him, that, the office should have fallen into, , 
other hands. Bat, conceiving a compliance, 
with the requisition to be a duty, which he 
was not at liberty to decline, he has endea- 
voured to execute it with all the impartiality 
and fidelity in his power; and he trusts to 
the candour of the Society for that share of 
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