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consideration, the Committee have not yet been able to pre- 
sent their report, but hope to he able to do so* at an early 
meeting in the ensuing session. 
Since the last annual meeting the proceedings of the Sec- 
tions have been marked by the same activity and interest 
which have characterised them from their establishment. In 
connexion with the Sections the Council refer with satisfac- 
tion to the success .which has attended the scheme for 
admitting Sectional Associates. Twenty gentlemen have 
availed themselves of the advantages which it offers ; and 
by the communications some of them have made, and the 
part they have taken in the discussions of the various sub- 
jects that have been brought under notice, they have added 
much to the interest and usefulness of the meetings. 
The following is a list of the communications made to the 
Society at its ordinary and sectional meetings during the 
past session : 
October ith, 1864. — “ Remarks on Mr. Dyer’s Paper, entitled 
‘Notes on Spinning Machines,’” by H. Brierly, Esq., communi- 
cated by E. W. Binney, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 
October 18 th, 1864. — “On the Relation of Force to Matter and 
Mind. Part I.,” by the Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S., 
Hon. Mem. 
October 13 th, 1864. — “Note on a New Star near the Greenwich 
Variable, No. 1773, of the Twelve-Year Catalogue,” by Joseph 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
October 17 th, 1864. — “On a Contrivance for regulating the 
amount of light transmitted from the Source of Illumination to 
the Mirror of the Microscope,” by J. B. Dancer, F.R.A.S. 
November ,15th, 1864.— “On the Composition of the. Atmos- 
phere,” by R. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S., President of the Society. 
November 29th, 1864. — “On Differential Equations,” by His 
Honour Chief Justice Cockle, M.A., F.R.A.S., &c., communicated 
by the Rev. Robert Harley, F.R.S., &c. 
November 29 th, 1864. — “Notes on Marine Shells found in 
Stratified Drift at Macclesfield,” by R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S. 
