PREFACE. 7 



by the loss of membership, and, consequently, of income, 

 on which its ability to continue the publication of Memoirs, 

 and to maintain the utility of the Library depends. A 

 glance through the list will show how much of what has been 

 best in Manchester has at all times been attracted into the 

 membership of this Society, and, if interest is aroused by 

 reading it, details of the life and work of several members 

 will be found in Dr. Angus Smith's Centenary Volume. 



A bibliographical list of the MS. volumes dealing with 

 the affairs of the Society, which have been used in the 

 preparation of the lists, and of the several publications of the 

 Society, is printed after the lists. And, as appendices, are 

 reprinted the two earliest publications of the Society, of 

 which, beyond the copies in the British Museum, a single 

 example of the first only is known at present to be in 

 existence. 



