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and the Arts. Essays on these topics, after they have been read, are 

 submitted, not to petulant criticism, but to the amicable and well- 

 regulated discussion of the Society. 



Titles of Papers which have been read at the Meetings of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester : 



ist. Observations on Mr. Norris's account of the Harmattan ; 

 by Alexander Eason, M.D. 



2d. Observations on the application of Natural History to Poetry; 

 by Thomas Percival, M.D., F.R.S., and S.A., member of the Royal 

 Society of Medicine, at Paris, &c. 



3d. Remarks on the power of the human body to resist heat; by 

 George Bell, M.D. 



4th. An account of some curious effects produced by air, heated 

 to a great degree, on Thermometers exposed to it; by Thomas 

 Henry, F.R.S., together with copies of letters to Mr. Henry, from 

 Mr. Charles Taylor, and Mr. Thomas Smith. 



5th. A moral essay on the advantages which may result from the 

 institution and well regulated support of the Literary and Philoso- 

 phical Society ; by John Wright, M.D. 



6th. An essay on the pleasures arising from minute observation, 

 and the advantages thence arising to the arts ; by Mr. Charles 

 Taylor. 



yth. A letter from James Massey, Esq., to Mr. Bew, containing a 

 new and simple method of impregnating water with fixed air, with 

 a drawing of the apparatus for that purpose, as well as decom- 

 posing lime water. 



8th. Some account of the tea tree ; by the Rev. John Foxley, 

 A.M. 



gth. An essay on the properest methods of publicly rewarding 

 useful discoveries and inventions ; by the Rev. Thomas Barnes. 



loth. On the advantages of literature and philosophy in general, 

 and especially on the consistency of literary and philosophical, with 

 commercial pursuits ; by Thomas Henry, F.R.S. 



nth. On the use of patents; by Alexander Eason, M.D. 



lath. On association and habit; by Thomas Percival, M.D., 

 F.R.S., &c. 



i3th. On the pleasures arising from a survey of nature, and con- 

 clusions consequent therefrom by Mr. John Wilson, 



