Annual Report of the Council. xxv 



MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



Annual Report of the Council, April, 191 5. 



The Society had at the beginning of the session an ordinary 

 membership of 145. Since then eight new members have 

 joined the Society, eight members have resigned, and five 

 members, Mr. Nathaniel Bradley, F.C.S., Mr. Thomas 

 Kay, J.P., Mr. R. B. Longridge, M.I.Mech.E., Mr. Thomas 

 Thorp, F.R.A.S., and Mr. S. B. Worthington, M.Inst.C.E., 

 M.I.Mech.E., have died. There are, therefore, at the end of 

 the session, 140 ordinary members of the Society. The Society 

 has also lost, by death, four honorary members, viz. : Mons. 

 E. H. Amagat, For. Mem. R.S., Professor James Geikie, 

 D.C.L., F.R.S., Professor Eduard Suess, Ph.D., For.Mem.R.S., 

 and Professor August Weismann, For. Mem. R.S. Memorial 

 notices* of these gentlemen will appear with this report in the 

 Memoirs a?id Proceedings. 



Twenty-five papers have been read at the meetings during 

 the year ; eleven shorter communications have also been made. 



The Society commenced the session with a balance in hand, 

 from all sources, of ^5^8. 2s. nd., made up as follows: — 



At credit of General Fund £z i 11 4 



n ,, Wilde Endowment Fund... 249 14 6 

 „ ,, Joule Memorial Fund 266 17 1 



Balance 31st March, 1914 ^54^ 2 11 



*The memorial notice of Mr. Thomas Thorp appeared with the Annual 

 Report for 19 14. 



