Annual Report of the Council. xlv 



publications, and with two appendices, containing reprints 

 of the earliest publications of the Society, was issued to the 

 members in November last. 



The last volume of the Memoirs and Proceedings was the 

 tenth of the Fourth Series, and it would have been in 

 accordance with the practice of the Society to have started 

 a new Series with the present session. Instead of beginning 

 a new Series, the Council has decided to count the volumes 

 from the commencement, and has given to the current 

 volume the number xli. At the same time, other changes 

 have been made in the volume. The Proceedings are printed 

 in a type different from that of the Memoirs, and are 

 consecutively paged, so that in the bound volume they 

 will be continuous and separate from the Memoirs. The 

 running headings of the Memoirs are altered in form, so 

 that the right-hand page-heading now gives the proper 

 form for giving a reference to the paper, and for this 

 purpose the title Manchester Memoirs, which has been in 

 use since Dalton's time, has been definitely adopted as the 

 official name. 



The Society was represented by Professor Schuster on 

 the occasion of the Jubilee of the Professorship of Lord 

 Kelvin. The address sent to Lord Kelvin, and his reply, 

 have already been printed in the Proceedings. 



The first awards of the Wilde Medal have been made 

 by the Council. The Medal for 1896 has been awarded 

 to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, for his eminent services to 

 mathematical and physical science ; and that for 1897 to 

 Dr. William Huggins, for his researches on the application 

 of spectrum analysis to solar and stellar physics. Arrange- 

 ments are in progress for fixing a date for the presentation 

 of these Medals, and for the delivery of the Lecture under 

 the Wilde Trust. The first award of the premium under 

 the Wilde Trust has been made to Mr. Peter Cameron, 

 for his papers on Hymenoptera Orientalia, which have been 

 published in the Memoirs. 



