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Annual General Meeting, April 19th, 1881. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
Report of the Council, April, 1881. 
The Treasurer’s Annual Account shows that the balance 
against the General Fund Account has increased from 
£57 Os. 2d. on the 1st of April, 1880, to £90 Os. 7d. on the 1st 
of April, 1881 ; that the balance in favour of the Natural 
History Fund Account has increased from £56 10s. 5d. to 
£76 5s. 8d. ; and deducting the difference between these 
two sums from the Compounders’ Fund, £125, there is a 
balance of £111 5s. Id. in favour of the Society on the 1st 
of April, 1881, against a balance of £124 10s. 3d. on the 1st 
of April, 1880. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the Society 
on the 1st of April, 1880, was 157, and one new member 
has been elected ; the losses have been — defaulters, 4, resig- 
nations, 7, and death, 1. The number on the roll on the 1st 
instant was therefore 146. 
Mr. Richard Johnson, F.C.S., the deceased member, was 
born in Manchester in the year 1809, and came of an old 
Lancashire family. At a comparatively early age he joined 
his father and one of his brothers in business, as wire and 
pin manufacturers, and under his and his brother Mr. Wm. 
Johnson’s active and enterprising management, the business 
grew, and soon attained a world-wide celebrity for the 
manufacture of telegraph and rope wire. 
Upwards of thirty years ago Mr. Johnson was elected a 
fellow of this Society, and, aided by the late Dr. Grace- 
Calvert, commenced a series of careful experiments on alloys 
of zinc, tin, and copper in definite proportions. The results 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil, Soc.— Yol. XX.— No. 10.— Session 1880-81, 
