xxviii. Annual Report. 



MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 1921. 



Membership. 



At the beginning of the Session the Society had an ordinary 

 membership of 326. Since then 54 new members have joined 

 the Society. Thirty-three members have resigned, one has 

 been elected a corresponding member, and three members (Mr. 

 T. G. Marsh, Sir William Mather, P.C., Mem.Inst.CE., and 

 Dr. D. Lloyd Roberts, F.R.C.P., F.R.S.E.) have died. There 

 are, accordingly, at the end of the session, 343 ordinary mem- 

 bers of the Society. The Society has also lost by death one 

 corresponding member (Mr. C. W. Sutton, M.A.) and four 

 honorary members (Sir William de W. Abney, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor R. B. Clifton, M.A., F.R.S., Sir. J. 

 Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., and Professor 

 Wilhelm Pfeffer, For.Mem.R.S.). 



On the nomination of the Council, Mr. R. F. Gwyther, M.A., 

 has been elected a corresponding member of the Society. 



Student Associates. 

 The Society has decided to admit as " Student Associates," 

 at a subscription of 10s. 6d. each, a limited number of persons 

 entering upon scientific careers who are anxious to make use 

 of the advantages of the Society but who could not afford to 

 join as ordinary members. This scheme will come into opera- 

 tion at the beginning of the Session 1921-22. 



Meetings, 1920-21. 



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

 during the year; seven shorter communications have also been 

 made. In addition, eight meetings have been held by the 

 Chemical Section. 



Several novel features have been introduced during the year. 

 A " Young People's Meeting " was held in January, at which 

 experimental demonstrations by Professor W. W. Haldane Gee 

 and by Mr. R. W. James were given, and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. 

 Clayton entertained the guests to tea in the Common Room. 



