Annual Report. xxxix. 



MANCHESTER 



LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Report of the Council, April 1920, 



The Society had at the beginning of the Session an ordinary 

 membership of 143. Since then 200 new members have joined 

 the Society (146 of these becoming members by the incorpora- 

 tion of the Manchester Chemical Club). Thirteen members 

 have resigned, and four members (Mr. Marcus Allen, Mr. S. W. 

 Gillett, Mr. A. J. King and Mr. Hermann Woolley) have died. 

 There are, accordingly, at the end of the session, 326 ordinary 

 members of the Society. The Society has also lost by death six 

 honorary members, viz. : Professor W. G. Farlow, Professor 

 Ernst Haeckel, Ph.D., Professor J. W. Hittorf, Sir Robert H. 

 Inglis Palgrave, F.R.S., The Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, 

 O.M., M.A., D.C.L., Sc.D., F.R.S., and Dr. A. G. Vernon- 

 Harcourt, M.A., F.R.S. 



On the nomination of the Council, Mr. J. T. F. Bishop, Mr. 

 W. S. Curphey, F.I.C., and Mr. C. W. Sutton, M.A., have been 

 elected corresponding members of the Society. 



Twenty-one papers have been read at the Society's meetings 

 during the year ; six shorter communications have also been 

 'made. In addition, rive meetings and a soiree have been held 

 by the Chemical Section. 



Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. , Vice-Chancellor of 

 the Victoria University of Manchester, was elected President in 

 November, Professor G. Elliot Smith having been compelled to 

 resign that office on his acceptance of the Professorship of 

 Anatomy in the University of London. At the request of the 

 Council, Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.R.S., consented to act 

 as Deput3^ Chairman when Sir Henry Miers could not attend 

 the Society's meetings. 



A new honorary office of Curator has been instituted, and 

 the number of ordinary members of the Council increased from 

 six to nine. Further, the Chairman and the Honorary Secretary 

 of the Chemical Section have been made ex-ojficio members of 

 the Council. 



Society's Accounts. 



The cash account of the Society is appended to this report. 

 The net cash in hand at the close of the Session amounted to 



