PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



British Association, September 8th — ioth, 1915. 



Members of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science were invited to an Exhibition of Apparatus, 

 Portraits, Books, etc., of Historical Interest in the 

 Society's House on the afternoons of Wednesday, Thursday, and 

 Friday, the 8th, 9th, and ioth of September, at 4-30 p.m. 



On Wednesday, the 8th, Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., received members of Sections A and G 

 (Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering) ; on 

 Thursday, the 9th, Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., 

 received the members of Section B (Chemistry) ; and on Friday, 

 The President (Professor Sydney J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S.) received members of Sections C, D, H, I and K 

 (Geology, Zoology, Anthropology, Physiology and Botany). 



A short account of the Society's history, by Mr. C. L. Barnes, 

 M.A., together with a list of the various exhibits, was distributed 

 to visitors during the meeting. These, and the frontispiece, a 

 photograph of the Society's House, are reproduced here. 



