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General Meeting, January 7th, 1890. 



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

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Michael G. Glazebrook, M.A., Mr. F. Harrison, 

 B.A., and Mr. H. L. JOSELAND, B.A., all of the Manchester 

 Grammar School, were elected Ordinary Members. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 7th, 1890. 



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

 President, in the Chair. 



A discussion on Influenza and Hay Fever took place, in 

 which Dr. HODGKINSON, Mr. GWYTHER, Mr. CHARLES 

 BAILEY, Mr. HEELIS, and others took part. Mr. FARADAY 

 quoted a manuscript letter written by Captain R. Dewhurst, 

 of Halliwell, near Bolton, to Colonel John Leigh Phillips, 

 of Manchester, in 1800 (included in the collection in the 

 possession of the Society), in which Dewhurst stated that 

 many persons had died from influenza in his neighbourhood. 



A paper by Mr. H. H. HOWORTH, M.P., entitled " The 

 Author of the Glacial Theory," was read by one of the 

 Secretaries in the unavoidable absence of the author in 

 Portugal. Mr. Howorth maintained that Carl Schimper, 

 the botanist, and not Agassiz, was the real author of the 

 theory. 



A discussion followed the reading of the paper, Mr. 

 Heelis urging that the idea of a great ice-sheet was common 

 property long before either Schimper or Agassiz took it up. 



