October 2nd, i gif\ PROCEEDINGS. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 2nd, 191 7. 



The President, 

 Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.I.C., in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books upon the 

 table. 



The President then delivered his Inaugural Address, in which he 

 gave a sketch of the very important work which had been done in the 

 Society since its inauguration in 1781. 



The Address is printed in full in the Me?noirs. 



General Meeting, October 16th, 191 7. 



The President, 

 Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., F.I.C., in the Chair. 



Miss Grace Wigglesworth, M.Sc, Botanical Department of 

 the Manchester Museum, The University, Manchester ; Mr. Fred 

 Wilkinson Barwick, Manager of the Manchester Chamber of 

 Commerce Testing House, Royal Exchange, Manchester ; Mr. 

 Kenneth Lee, of Messrs. Tootal Broadhurst, Lee & Co. Ltd., Oxford 

 Road, Manchester ; and Mr. Alfred J. King, Elleray, Windermere ; 

 were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



