298 Literary and Philosophical Society. 



limited nature of this report prevents them doing more 

 justice to communications of great value. 



These documents will, however, be placed in the hands 

 of the Society, and will furnish an encouraging illustration, 

 and valuable record, of the essential aid which science is 

 now affording to investigations of the highest importance 

 to the agriculture and domestic economy of the country. 

 (Signed), JOHN MOORE, 



Chairman of the Committee. 



Mr. Joseph Chessborough Dyer. 



A very prominent man in the Society for many years 

 was J. C. Dyer. He was a tall and very powerfully built 

 man. As he died in 1871 at the age of ninety-two years, 

 he was not known at his best to the present members ; but 

 one could see how strong he must have appeared in his 

 prime. Making this remark reminds us of the frequency 

 with which the words tall and powerful, or some equivalent, 

 has been used in speaking of the men who have adorned 

 the Society, and at the same time contributed to the power 

 of Manchester. They have been men of both physical and 

 mental force : men who did their daily work for main- 

 tenance, and when it was over had time enough to con- 

 tinue thinking and planning both for a farther continuance 

 of advantage to themselves, and for an improvement in the 

 condition of the neighbourhood or of the kingdom. Men 

 who have no overtime cannot make progress. But there 

 are more ways than one of giving it, to humanity; public 

 works require both a strong body and an active mind : 

 when this exists, the day is lengthened or made equal 

 to an addition of assistants who require no wages. 



Mr. Dyer was not strong in the period remembered by 



