xxii. Proceedings. [May ioth, 192 1. 



These are constituents of our immediate awareness, and from 

 the nature and relations of events he builds up a consistent 

 theory of Space and Time, and defines Rest and Motion and the 

 metrical properties that are required for experimental procedure. 



Extraordinaiy General Meeting, May ioth, 192 1. 

 Mr. W. Henry Todd (Vice-President), in the Chair. 

 At this Extraordinary General Meeting, summoned in 

 accordance with the Articles of Association, the following 

 resolution, submitted by the Council in response to a requisi- 

 tion signed by five ordinary members of the Society, was 

 submitted to the Society : — 



" That this meeting of the Manchester Literary and 

 Philosophical Society, being convinced that the spelling of 

 many of our English words is unjustifiable either from the 

 etymological or from the utilitarian point of view, and that 

 much of the time of our school children is at present wasted 

 on a useless and illogical system, calls upon His Majesty's 

 Ministers to refer to an Academy the power of simplifying 

 our spelling and making it more in accordance with the true 

 spirit of English orthography." 

 This resolution was adooted. 



General Meeting, May ioth, 192 1. 



Mr. W. Henry Todd (Vice-President) , in the Chair. 



Mr. Percy Enfield Dowson, M.A., Research Chemist, The Chemical 

 Department, Messrs. Bowntree and Co., Ltd., York; was elected an 

 Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, May ioth, 1921. 

 Mr. W. Henry Todd (Vice-President), in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was passed to the donors of the books upon 

 the table. These included :— " The Vegetation of the Siberian- 

 Mongolian Frontiers/' by H. Printz (fob, Trondhjem, 1921), 

 presented by the Kongeligt Norsk Videnskabers Selskab. 



Professor W. W. Haldane Gee, B.Sc, M.Sc.Tech., said that 

 the history of the Manchester Guardian, by Mr. W. Haslam 

 Mills, published in the recent centenary number, was of interest 

 in connection with the past membership of the Society. John 

 Taylor, the father of John Edward— the founder and first editor 

 of the newspaper — became a member in 1808. At the age of 



