PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 2nd, 1906. 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, F.R.S.E., in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library: — "The Beaufort Scale of 

 Wind-force" by G. C. Simpson (4to., London, 1906), " The 

 Life History of Surface Air Currents" by W. N, Shaw and 

 R. G. K Lempfert (4to., London, 1906), presented by the 

 Meteorological Office ; " De Java-oorlog van 1825-30 ".. .Vierde 

 Deel, [by] E. S. De Klerck (8vo., Batavia, 1905), " Rapporten van 

 de Commissie in Ned.-Ind. v. Oudheidkundig onderzoek op Java 

 en Aladoera, 1004" (4to., Batavia, 1906), presented by the 

 Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen ; 

 " Bestimmung der Lan°endijferenz zw. d. grossh. Sternwarte bei 

 Heidelberg u.d. Kaiserl. Univ.-Sternzvarte in Strassburg i. E." 

 von E. Becker u. W. Valentiner (4to., Karlsruhe i. B., 1906) 

 presented by the Astronomische Institut bei Heidelberg ; 

 " Report on the Geodetic Survey of part of Southern Rhodesia" 

 by A. Simms (fol., Cape Town, 1905), presented by the Royal 

 Observatory, Cape of Good Hope ; <: Les Prix Nobel en 1903" 

 (8vo., Stockholm, 1906), presented by the Academie Royale 

 Suedoise des Sciences ; " Catalogue of the Moliere Collection in 

 Harvard College Library" by T. F. Currier and E. L. Gay (8vo., 

 Cambridge, Mass., 1906), presented by Harvard College Library; 



