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friends for their kind gifts, and your Treasurer will be glad 

 to receive further donations towards the same object. 



The electric light installation, which was under 

 consideration at the date of the last report, and the whole 

 cost of which Mr. Henry Wilde, F.R.S., offered to bear, was 

 accepted by your Council, and the work has been carried out 

 during the year. This is another of many gifts made to the 

 Society by the same generous donor. The cost of the work 

 was £76, and the Society received from Mr. Wilde a donation 

 of ;£ioo, the balance going towards the cost of repainting and 

 repairing the Society's rooms and buildings. The electric 

 installation does not supersedethe existing gas arrangements, 

 which are maintained as heretofore ; but it is used as an 

 adjunct to the gas supply, and as a ready means for apply- 

 ing the electric current for experimental purposes. 



On November 26th, 1889 (Vol. III., p. 112), the 

 Secretaries reported to the Society that, in response to the 

 appeal of the Council, a Committee of citizens had been 

 formed to secure the erection of a permanent memorial of 

 Dr. Joule, then recently dead. Of this Committee, Mr. 

 Alderman John Mark (then Mayor of Manchester) was 

 appointed Chairman, the late Mr. Oliver Hey wood, Treasurer, 

 and Professor Osborne Reynolds, Mr. F. J. Faraday, and 

 Mr. R. F. Gwyther, Hon. Secretaries. The Council has 

 now to record that the marble statue of Dr. Joule, by 

 Mr. Alfred Gilbert, R.A., was unveiled on December 8th 

 last, by Lord Kelvin, the President of the Royal Society, 

 and was presented to the Corporation of Manchester by 

 Mr. Alderman Mark, the Chairman of the Committee, and 

 accepted on behalf of the Corporation by the Lord Mayor, 

 Mr. Alderman Marshall. The statue has been placed by 

 the Manchester Corporation in the position which it now 

 occupies, opposite the Chantrey statue of Dalton, in the 

 vestibule of the main entrance of the Town Hall. 



In February of last year, the Joule Memorial Com- 



