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On the opposite side is the Council room, lined from floor 

 to ceiling with French publications ; these include the Jkfemoires 

 de rAcademie des Scie?ices from 1666 onwards, the Annales de 

 Chimie et de Physique from 1789, and the Comptes Rendus from 

 1835. On the mantelpiece is a chronometer watch used by 

 Joule, and among the portraits on the walls is one of Bunsen 

 and Kirchhoff, the former seated, the latter standing. 



Passing by a small ante-room and a bronze bust of Dr. 

 Angus Smith, we come to the largest room in the building, 

 used for special lectures, and known as the Library, in which 

 British serials are stored. Most of these emanate from London, 

 though the chief provincial towns and cities are represented, 

 from Aberdeen to York. As regards the Philosophical Trans- 

 actions, the Society possesses what is virtually a complete set. 

 The first go volumes were condensed by the Royal Society 

 into 18, containing all the important papers up to that 

 time ; these, with the subsequent issues, are complete. Over 

 the fireplaces are cases containing part of Dalton's chemical 

 apparatus, the crudity of which need not be pointed out. The 

 balance and weights, the thermometers, phials, measuring in- 

 struments, etc., are of a most primitive description, yet they 

 were so used by him as to create an epoch in the history of 

 chemistry. 



In the basement are publications from Russia, Holland, 

 Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. 



On the staircase leading to the first floor are a number of 

 portraits of the Wilde lecturers, among them being Lord Rayleigh, 

 Sir G. G. Stokes, Sir Michael Foster, Sir William Ramsay, 

 Professor Frederick Soddy, Professor (now Sir) J. J. Larmor, 

 Dr. (now Sir) J. A. Ewing, Dr. F. W. Clarke, Professor H, H. 

 Turner, Dr. D. H. Scott, and Professor H. B. Baker. 



The Dalton MSS. are kept in a case (presented to the 

 Society by Sir Henry Roscoe, F.R.S.) on the landing, and 

 above it is a photograph of the vestibule of the Manchester 

 Town Hall, shewing the statues of Dalton and Joule. Dalton's 

 physical apparatus is kept in a case at the end of the passage. 



