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in the Royal Transactions. Having given him a satisfactory 

 answer, and alluded at the same time to our former and frequent 

 meetings in that very hall more than a quarter of a century 

 before, I took my leave of this venerable man, who, besides the 

 admiration he was wont to excite before his dreadful attack of 

 illness, was one of the greatest, yet one of the most simple- 

 hearted men of his time, and even commands a higher degree 

 of respect, not unmingled with a feeling of commiseration at his 

 present enfeebled condition." 



A paper by Mr. W. J. Perry, B.A., entitled " The Rela- 

 tionship between the Geographical Distributions of 

 Megalithic Monuments and Ancient Mines," was 



explained by Mr. D. M. S. Watson, M.Sc. 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs with some 

 Supplementary Remarks by Professor G. Elliot Smith, M.A., 

 M.D., F.R.S. 



General Meeting, October 19th 1915- 



The President, Professor Sydney J. Hickson, M.A.,D.Sc.,F.R.S , 



in the Chair. 



Mr. F. E. Bradley, M.A., M.Com., LL.D., Barrister-at-Law, 

 Stormarn, Wilbraham Road, Choriton-cum-Hardy, Manchester ; 

 Mr. J. C. Munro, Clough House, Whaley Bridge / and Mr. 

 William Granville Pemberton, Technical Chemist, 49, 

 Aa-esfteld Road, Pendleton, were elected ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 19th, 19 15. 



The President, Professor Sydney J. Hickson, M.A.,D.Sc, F.R.S., 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. 



