PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 6th, 1903. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. The following books were included amongst 

 the recent donations to the Society's Library : — " Subject List of 

 Works on Architecture a7td Building Co7istructio7i " (8vo., London, 

 i9°3) j " Guide to the Search Department of the Patent Office 

 Library,''' 2nd ed. (i6mo., London, 1903), presented by the Patent 

 Ofifice, London ; " Tibetan-English Dictionary" by Sarat Chandra 

 Das, revised and edited by C. Sandberg and A. W. Heyde (410., 

 Calcutta, 1902), presented by the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal ; 

 " A Historical Sketch of the Experimental Determination of the 

 Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Frojectiles" by F. Bashforth 

 (8vo., Cambridge, 1903), presented by the author; "Catalogue 

 of Canadian Birds" Pt. ii., by J. Macoun (8vo., Ottawa, 

 1903), presented by the Geological Survey of Canada ; " Natick 

 Dictionary ^^ by J. H. Trumbull (8vo., Washington, X903), 

 presented by the Bureau of American Ethnology ; " Great 

 Trigonometrical Survey of Lndia" vol. xvii. (foL, Dehra Dun, 

 1 901), presented by the Secretary of State for India ; " Le Opere 

 di Galileo Galilei" vol. xiii. (4to., Firenze, 1903), presented by 

 the Italian Government ; " Catalogiie of the Library of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Neivcastle-upo7t-Tyne" 



