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The large attendance and the enthusiasm shown by the guests, 

 lead the Council to hope that they may be able to hold similar 

 meetings annually. 



Two Joint Meetings were also held successfully : the first, 

 with the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society, at which 

 Professor T. Eric Peet gave an address on "Ancient Egyptian 

 Mathematics " ; the other, with the Faraday Society, at which 

 Dr. Allan Ferguson and Mr. P. E. Dowson read papers entitled 

 " Studies in Capillarity/' Parts I and II, which were followed 

 by a lengthy discussion by a large audience. 



The First Joule Memorial Lecture was held on December 14th, 

 1920, when Sir Dugald Clerk, K.B.E., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 gave an address on " The Work and Discoveries of Joule/' 

 The address will be published in the Society's Memoirs. A 

 dinner in honour of the lecturer was held the same evening. 



Society's Accounts. 



The cash account of the Society and a statement of assets 

 and liabilities are appended to this report. 



The statement of assets and liabilities shows a considerable 

 increase in the Society's assets, including the new premises. 



Society's Library. 



The Librarian reports that during the Session 580 volumes 

 have been stamped, catalogued and pressmarked ; 423 of these 

 were serials. These figures include 136 of the separate works 

 from the library of the old Manchester Chemical Club. The 

 total number of volumes catalogued to date is 39,140. 



The additions to the library for the Session amounted to 910 

 volumes : 717 serials, and 193 separate works. The donations 

 (exclusive of the usual exchanges) w T ere 54 volumes ; 3 volumes 

 were purchased in addition to those regularly subscribed for. 

 During the year 87 volumes have been bound in 72 covers. In 

 the previous Session the corresponding numbers w 7 ere 150 

 volumes in 102 covers. 



The Society now subscribes to The Chemical Age and The 

 Gas Journal. The donations to the Society's Library during 

 the session include gifts of books by Mr. F. W. Atack, Messrs. 

 Edward Bennis & Co., Ltd., Mr. David Brownlie, Mr. F. H. 

 Butler, Mr. L. A. Fenn, Messrs. Adam Hilger, Ltd., Mr. W.O. 

 Howarth, Lady Lockyer, Professor F. E. Weiss, the Trustees 

 of the Poynting Memorial Fund ; the Committee for the Publi- 

 cation of the Scientific Results of the Captain Scott Antarctic 

 Fund ; the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) ; 

 the Patent Office Library, London ; the Director of the Royal 



