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The Council arranged for the Wilde Lecture to be delivered 

 on Monday, February 1 8th, 1907, by Dr. J. A. Evving, F.R.S., 

 M.Inst.CE., Director of Naval Education to the Admiralty. 

 The subject of the Lecture was "The Structure of Metals." 



The Council resolved that the following congratulatory letter 

 be sent to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia on 

 the occasion of the celebration of the 21st anniversary of its 

 foundation : — 



"The Council of the Manchester Literary and Philosophi- 

 " cal Society desires to congratulate the Royal Geographical 

 " Society of Australasia on the occasion of the celebration of 

 "the Twenty-first Anniversary of its Foundation, and wishes 

 "to express the hope that the Society, which has done so 

 " much to advance the progress of natural science in the past, 

 "may long continue to carry on its useful work. 



" (Signed) W. H. Bailey, President. 



Francis Jones, ) 



^ ITI _, r Hon. Secretaries. 



i. W. Gamble, ) 



" May jo tli, ipod." 



