viii. Proceedings. [October 20th, 1896. 



General Meeting, October 20th, 1896. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr John Wright, Sandiway, Whalley Road, Whalley 

 Range; Mr. Leonard F. Massey, 4. Egerton Road, Fallow- 

 field ; Mr. W. P. Steinthal, M.Sc, Melrose, Didsbury; and 

 Mr. Abraham Emrys Jones, J. P., M.D., M.Ch., 10, St. John 

 Street, Manchester, were elected Ordinary Members. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 20th, 1896. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors 

 of the books upon the table. 



One of the Secretaries mentioned that it appeared from 

 the Catalogue of the British Museum that the Society had 

 published in 1782 a quarto pamphlet containing the Rules 

 of the Society and a List of Members at that date, and 

 in 1783 had published another quarto pamphlet containing 

 an account of the institution and views of the Society, 

 which was re-published in 1784. None of these pamphlets 

 are in the possession of the Society, and their existence 

 appears to be generally unknown. They are not alluded 

 to in Dr. Angus Smith's Centenary Volume. If any 

 member found that he possessed a copy of either of the 

 pamphlets, he was requested to allow the Secretaries to 

 have a transcript made for re-publication. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson exhibited, and presented to the 

 Society, a copy of the earlier pamphlet entitled " Rules 

 established for the government of the Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society of Manchester, and a List of the Members, 



