BURNLEY 



Literary and Philosophical 



SOCIETY. 



SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. 

 The annual meeting of this Society was held 

 on Wednesday night, March 29th, in the So- 

 ciety's rooms at Scar House. Mr. S. Holden 

 presided, and there was a good attendance of 

 members. The report for the year was read by 

 Mr. John Allen, the general secretary, and 

 was as follows : — 



ANNTJAL REPOET. 



The sixth annual report which the committee 

 have now the pleasure of submitting to the 

 members is, on the whole, somewhat unevent- 

 ful. Tlie 25 meetings which were arranged for 

 the winter session have been held, and at these 

 the average attendance has been 36. This is 

 not a large attendance when we look at the fact 

 that we have now a membership of 154. But on 

 the other hand it has to be remembered that our 

 members are widely scattered, some living in 

 Oolne, Nelson, Brierfield, in Bacup, Oldhajn, 

 Wigaji, Manchester, Blackburn and Blackpool, 

 as well as in more distant places still. 



The membership of the society now stands as 

 follows : Honorary members 14, associates 6, 

 ordinary members 134, or an increase of 17 on 

 last year. Your committee would like tO' see 

 the number of ordinary members increased to 

 300, for then the income would enable the society 

 to undertake much pressiag work which now, 

 for want of funds, has to be relegated to the 

 future. 



During the past year Mr. James Holmes, oJ 

 Burnley, author of " Cotton weaving calcula- 

 tions," "Cotton cloth designing" and other works 

 has been elected a honorary member of the 

 society, his contributions to technical literature 

 justly entitling him to the recognition and ap- 

 preciation of the Society, of which he was an 

 ordinary member. 



The committee also submits for honorary mem- 

 bership the names of Mr. Wynford Brierley and 

 of Mr. Frank Slater. Mr. Brierley has invented 

 and patented what the committee believe to be 

 a most important and valuable appliance for 

 preventing accidents on railways. The inven- 

 tion has already been successfully submitted to 

 severe tests, and has been favourably reported 

 upon by an inspector of the Board of Trade. 

 Some large framed photographs have been pre- 

 sented to the society by Mr. Brierley, and those 

 give some idea of what the invention is intended 

 to do. 



Mr. Frank Slater, our second new honorary 

 member, is well known as the author of 

 " Bonnie Coine," and many other musical com- 

 positions, as well as nine or ten dramas of local, 

 and more than local interest, including "Monk- 

 royd," "Walverden, ' and "Wycollar Dean." 



And your committee note with pleasure that 

 Mr. John Dean — another member of your 

 society— has patented a smoke consumer and coal 

 ecHjnomiser, of which many practical men speak 

 in the highest terms. 



