﻿PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 4th, 1904. 



Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. The following were among the recent 

 accessions to the Society's Library : — "Dictionary of Altitudes in 

 the Dominion of Canada" by J. White (8vo., Ottawa, 1903), 

 presented by the Geological Survey of Canada ; " Asirographic 

 Catalogue ipoo.o, Greenwich Section" vol. i., by W. H. M. 

 Christie (4to., Edinburgh, 1904), presented by the Royal Observa- 

 tory at Greenwich ; " Climatological Observations at Colonial and 

 Foreign Stations : I. Tropical Africa, igoo-igoi-igo2" by E. G. 

 Ravenstein (4to., London, 1904), presented by the Meteorological 

 Office of London ; " Further Observations on the Polli?iatio7i of 

 the Primrose" by F. E. Weiss (8vo., n. pi., 1904), presented by the 

 author; i! Catalogus der Munten en Amuletten van China, Japan, 

 Corea e?i Anna?n, behoorende tot de Numismat. Verzameling v. het 

 Bataviaasch Genootschap v. Kunsten e7i Wetenschappen" door H. 

 N. Stuart (4to., Batavia, 1904), presented by the Bataviaasch 

 Genootschap v. Kunsten en Wetenschappen ; " A Monograph of 

 the British Desmidiaceae" vol. i., by W. and G. S. West (8vo., 

 London, 1904), purchased; " La R. Accad. Petrarca di Arezzo 

 a Francesco Petrarca nel VI. centenario della sua nascita " (8vo.; 

 Arezzo, 1904), presented by the R. .Accad. Petrarca ; and " The 



