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The following resolution was passed unanimously : — 



"This meeting of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester desires to give the most public expression of its 

 profound sense of the humiliation wantonly imposed on the 

 Nation by the reported action of the Government in wilfully 

 submitting the priceless treasures of the British Museum to 

 the certainty of irreparable damage." 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.E.S., F.Z.S. (Vice-President) then took the 

 chair, and the President, Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., 

 F.I.C. read a paper entitled — "Somatose." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



General Meeting, January 22nd, 191 8. 



The Vice-President, 

 Professor S. J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. John Mayer Lees, F.C.A., Lymefield, Offerton, Stockport, 

 was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 22nd, 191 8. 



The Vice-President, 

 Professor S. J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Mrs. Craven exhibited a portion of a piece of coal containing a 

 quantity of galena. 



Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson, F.G.S., read a paper entitled : — "The 

 Association of Facetted Pebbles with Glacial Deposits." 



This paper will appear in full in the Memoirs. 



Professor S. J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., then gave a short 

 account of a paper written by the late Mr. Edward Halkyard, and 

 edited and revised by Mr. Edward Heron-Allen and Mr. A. 

 Earland on "The Fossil Foraminifera of the Blue Marl, 

 Cote des Basques, Biarritz." 



This paper will appear in full as Part II. of this volume. 



