PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 6th, 19 14. 



The President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes, M.A., drew attention to the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library, and a vote of thanks was 

 passed to the donors of the books upon the table. The following 

 works were included in the recent accessions to the Society's 

 Library : " Report on the Lagenae of the South- West Pacific 

 Ocean (Supplementary Paper)" by Henry Sidebottom (8vo., 

 London, 19 13), presented by the Author ; "Corrections to the 

 places of the Camb?'idge (Ast. Gesell.) Catalogue deduced from 

 Photographic Measures on the Plates of the Oxford Section of the 

 A strographic Catalogue. Oxford Astrographic Catalogue" Vol. 

 VIII. , Part I. (4to., Edinburgh [19 13]), " Tables for facilitating 

 the use of Harmonic Analysis" arranged by H. H. Turner (8vo., 

 London, 191 3), and " Collated List of Lunar Formations named 

 or lettered in the Maps of JVeison, Schmidt, and A/adler." com- 

 piled and annotated for the Committee by Mary A. Blagg under 

 the direction of the late S. A. Saunder (Lunar Nomenclature 

 Committee...), (8vo., Edinburgh, 191 3), presented by the 

 University Observatory, Oxford ; "An Account of a Land Map 

 of the World" by B. J. S. Cahill (8vo., n.p., 1913), presented by 

 the Cahill World Map Co. j "Results of Magnetic Observations... 



