October 20tk, IpOJ.] PROCEEDINGS. Ill 



Dr. F. Craven Moore, M.Sc, Assistant to the Professor of 

 Medicine, Owens College; Mr. J. Lewis Paton, M.A., High 

 Master, Manchester Grammar School ; Mr. W. H. Core, M.Sc, 

 Withington ; and Mr. H. E. Wood, B.Sc, Demonstrator in 

 Physics in the Owens College, were elected ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 20th, 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 bust of John Dalton, presented to the Society by 

 Sir Henry Roscoe on the occasion of the Centenary of the 

 Announcement of the Atomic Theory, was unveiled by the 

 President. The Secretary read the following letter from the 

 donor : — 



" I desire to present to the Literary and Philosophical 

 "Society of Manchester a bronze bust of Dr. Dalton, as a 

 " memento of the years of pleasant intercourse which I have in 

 "past days spent in converse with its members, and as a 

 " recognition of the honour which the Society has done me by 

 " electing me as an Honorary Member, and in bestowing upon 

 " me its Dalton Medal. The bust is the work of a distinguished 

 " sculptress, Miss Levick, and I believe that all those who have 

 " seen it agree with me in esteeming it a powerful and lifelike 

 " work of art. It will give me great satisfaction to hear that the 

 " Society accept my gift, and that they value the bust as a work 

 " of art, and as a reminiscence of the donor." 



The President then formally unveiled the bust, and said 

 that there were two sources used in the construction of it — one 

 a bust executed by Chantrey in 1833, representing Dalton when 

 67 years old ; the other a little ivory statuette formerly the property 



