Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 15th, 1889. 



Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



The President said : — 



" It is my sad office to-night to make formal mention of 

 the death, which took place at his house, Wardle Road, 

 Sale, of our senior Vice-President, who was also, if I may 

 use the words, our much loved and honoured master, Dr. Joule. 

 Although for the last four years we have missed his presence 

 amongst us, we have still been able to feel the honour of 

 being associated with him as members of this Society, 

 an honour which was peculiarly our own ; for although a 

 member of many societies all the world over, with no other 

 was his connection to be compared with that of the 

 Literary and Philsophical Society of Manchester. His 

 association with these rooms, commencing as it did when 

 he was only 15 years of age, continued, by the most regular 

 attendance, as long as his health would permit, and, termin- 

 ating only with his death, cannot but have been one of the 

 most important circumstances in his life ; while, on the 

 other hand, the Society will ever cherish the memory of his 

 connection with it as amongst its most important associa- 

 tions. We who have been directly associated with him 

 here, and have felt the encouragement of the keen but 

 kindly interest which he took in all efforts after truth, 

 however trivial they may have appeared to one who had 

 accomplished such great things, will remember this as a con- 

 tinually increasing honour, and as one of the most pleasant 

 memories of our lives. It is not for me nowto attempt to place 

 before you any summary of Dr. Joule's work. This will form 

 the subject of a Memoir to be presented on a future occasion. 



