ii2 Proceedings. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 26th, 1889. 



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

 President, in the Chair. 



The PRESIDENT reported on behalf of the Council that 

 the effort to obtain a Public Meeting, to promote the erec- 

 tion of a permanent memorial in Manchester of Dr. James 

 Prescott Joule, had been responded to in the most encour- 

 aging and even enthusiastic manner ; that upwards of three 

 hundred and forty residents, including those most influen- 

 tial, had signed a requisition to the Mayor ; that the Mayor 

 (Mr. Alderman Mark,) had shown the greatest interest in 

 the matter, not only by lending his Parlour in the Town 

 Hall, and presiding, but by addressing the meeting, which 

 had been held on November 25 ; that the meeting had been 

 large and influential, and that many letters had been 

 received from those persons who were unavoidably absent, 

 supporting the movement and promising help; that Mr, 

 Oliver Heywood had moved the following resolution : — 



" That this meeting desires to mark its deep sense of the 

 benefits conferred on mankind for all time, as well as of the 

 honour which has accrued to this district, by the scientific work 

 of the late James Prescott Joule, by the erection of a durable 

 memorial of him in Manchester, in the form of a white marble 

 statue," 



which had been adopted ; that a large committee had been 

 appointed to carry on the work, with the Mayor of Man- 

 chester as chairman, and Mr. Oliver Heywood as treasurer; 

 and that the Joule Committee appointed by the Council had 

 now discharged its duties. 



Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., M.R.C.S., exhibited specimens 

 of cuttle-fish from the Challenger collection, which have 



