Annual Report of the Council. xlvii 



MANCHESTER 

 LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Annual Report of the Council, April, igi6. 



The Society had at the beginning of the session an ordinary 

 membership of 140. Since then eight new members have 

 joined the Society, nine members have resigned, and one 

 member, Mr. W. H. Cork, M.Sc, has died. There are, 

 therefore, at the end of the session, 138 ordinary members 

 of the Society. The Society has also lost, by death, four 

 honorary members, viz. : Dr. H. Debus, F.R.S., The Right 

 Hon. Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., Professor 

 Graf zu Solms Laubach, For. Mem. R.S., and Professor Sir 

 William Turner, K.C.B., M.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. Memorial 

 notices of these gentlemen will appear with this report in the 

 Memoirs and Proceedings. 



Twenty-six papers have been read at the meetings during 

 the year ; fourteen shorter communications have also been 

 made. 



The Society commenced the session with a balance in hand, 

 from all sources, of ^462. is. i?,d., made up as follows : — 



At credit of General Fund £ 2 A 2 2 *> 



„ ,, Wilde Endowment Fund... 353 4 5 



>, ,, Joule Memorial Fund 84 14 6 



Balance 31st March, 1915 £a& 2 1 J i 



