ii. Proceedings. {October 16th, iqjj 



Ordinary Meeting, October i6th, 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. 



Mr. D. Ward Cutler, M.A., read a paper entitled :- 

 " Natural and Artificial Parthenogenesis in Animals." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



General Meeting, October 30th, 191 7. 



The President, 

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



Rev. J. J. Ingram, M.A. (Cantab), Science Master, St. Bede's 

 College, Manchester, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 30th, 191 7. 



The President, 

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



During the meeting a valuable gift to the Society was made by 

 Mr. Henry Boddington, of Pownall Hall, who presented the original 

 painting by Ford Madox Brown for the fresco in the Manchester 

 Town Hall, depicting Dalton engaged in collecting marsh gas from a 

 pool. 



It was unanimously resolved that the best thanks of the Society 

 be accorded to Mr. Boddington, for his very valuable and appropriate 

 gift. 



The following account of the picture is taken from the official 

 descriptions of the Mural Paintings in the Town Hall : — 



" Panel No. 12.— Dalton Collecting Marsh-Fire Gas. 



John Dalton, inventor of the Atomic Theory, was born at 

 Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, in Cumberland, September 

 5th, 1766. As early as when only twelve he started a school 

 in partnership with a brother only a few years older. The 

 stronger pupils, it is stated, would challenge Dalton to fight 



