October igth, 1897.] Proceedings. vii 



General Meeting, October 19th, 1897. 



James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Wilfred R. Faraday, LL.B., Ramsay Lodge, Burnage 

 Lane, Levenshulme, Mr. William Thomas Rothwell, Heath 

 Brewery, Newton Heath, and Mr. Charles Henry Wyatt, School 

 Board Offices, Manchester, were elected ordinary members of 

 the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 19th, 1897. 

 James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the table. 



The death of Mr. James Heywood, F.R.S., who was the 

 oldest member of the Society, having been elected in 1833, was 

 announced, and on the motion of the President, seconded by 

 Professor Osborne Reynolds, a resolution expressing sympathy 

 and condolence with the members of the family was carried 

 unanimously. 



Professor Weiss exhibited some flowering specimens of 

 the plant called Dog's Mercury, collected by Mr. F. J. George, 

 of Chorley. The Dog's Mercury usually flowers in the early 

 spring, but the plant from which the shoots exhibited were 

 collected has been observed by Mr. George for thirteen successive 

 seasons to flower in the autumn. Sir Joseph Hooker, to whom 

 some of these shoots have been sent, was of the opinion that it 

 might be regarded as a special form with this autumn-flowering 

 character. 



The President communicated a paper from Mr. Peter 



