iv. 



Proceedings. [October 6th, 1896. 



[reply.] 



The University, Glasgow. 



For the Address which I have had the honour to receive 

 from the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 

 the occasion of the Jubilee of my Professorship of Natural 

 Philosophy in the University of Glasgow, I desire to express 

 my warmest thanks. I value very highly the great honour 

 which it has conferred on me. The friendly appreciation 

 of my scientific work contained in the Address is most 

 gratifying. 



I feel deeply touched by the great kindness to myself, and 

 the good wishes for my welfare, of which it gives expression. 



(Signed) Kelvin. 



July 7, ,1896. 



The Secretaries recalled the attention of the members 

 to a circular lately issued asking authors of papers to supply 

 abstracts of their papers before the date of reading them, in 

 order that copies might be quickly communicated to suitable 

 periodicals, and also supplied to members present at the 

 meeting when the papers are read. 



Professor F. E. Weiss prefaced the reading of the late 

 Mr. Thomas Hick's paper " On Rachiopteris cylindrica, 



Will.," by lamenting the loss which the Society, and 

 Botanical Science generally, has sustained from Mr. Hick's 

 death. The paper read was the record of the last work 

 upon which Mr. Hick was engaged, and it had been for- 

 warded by his family, having been found with the pencilled 

 note to be read at the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society in Mr. Hick's handwriting. 



The paper is priiK-d in full i.: Ine Memoirs. 



The circumstances under which the paper came to the 

 Society were felt to be exceptional, and it was moved by 

 Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., and seconded by Mr. J. Cosmo 



