Atmual Report of the Council. xxix 



The Council arranged for the Wilde Lecture to be delivered 

 on Tuesday, February 23rd, 1904, by Mr. F. Soddy, M.A., of 

 University College, London. 



The Council resolved that an address be presented to Sir 

 Henry E. Roscoe on the celebration of the jubilee of liis taking 

 his Doctor's Degree at Heidelberg. The following is a copy of 

 the address presented at the Owens College on April 22nd, 1904: 



[copy.] 

 To Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. 



The President, Council, and Members of the Man- 

 chester Literary and Philosophical Society desire to convey 

 to you their heartiest congratulations on the celebration of 

 the Jubilee of your Doctorate. 



Elected into this Society in 1858, you performed the 

 arduous duties of Secretary for twelve years with a zeal and 

 unfailing courtesy which will always be remembered by us 

 with sincere gratitude. For twelve years also you held the 

 office of President or Vice-President, and most worthily 

 upheld the dignity and scientific prestige of the Society. 



Your eminence as a scientific man and the distinguished 

 services you have rendered to this Society were recognized 

 in T900 by the awaid to you of the Dalton Medal, the 

 highest honour we can bestow upon a member. 



While we feel it unnecessary to detail your many 

 contributions to Science, we wish to mention the debt that 

 the historian of Chemistry and our Society owe to your work 

 in elucidating from Dalton's manuscripts the genesis of the 

 idea of the Atomic Theory. 



(Signed) W. BOYD DAWKINS, President, 



FRANCIS JONES, 



April,. go,. CHARLES H. ^^^^<^:^ Hon. Secretaries. 



The following is the reply of Sir Henry E. Roscoe to the 

 above address : — 

 The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



That the Council of the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society has remembered this occasion is gratifying to me, 

 holding as I do in pleasant memory my old association with 

 its members. 



Long may the oldest of provincial Scientific Societies 

 flourish and renew its youth, proud of its association with 

 the two great master minds, Dalton and Joule. 

 April 22nd, igo4. HENRY E. ROSCOE. 



