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Annual General Meeting, April 18th, 1882. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L,, LL.D., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
Report of the Council, April, 1882. 
The Treasurers Annual Account shows that the balance 
against the General Fund has increased from £90 Os. 7d. on 
the 1st of April, 1881, to £120 12s. 5d. on the 1st of April, 
1882 ; that the balance in favour of the Natural History 
Fund has diminished from £76 5s. 8d. to £35 7s. lid.; and 
deducting the difference between these two sums from the 
Compounders’ Fund, £125, there is a balance of £39 15s. 6d. 
in favour of the Society on the 1st of April, 1882, against a 
balance of £111 5s. Id. on the 1st of April, 1881. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1881, was 146, and 7 new 
members have been elected ; the losses have been— resigna- 
tions 9, and deaths 3. The number on the roll on the 1st 
instant was therefore 141. The deceased members are 
Mr. John Blackwall, Mr. A, G. Latham, and Mr. E. W. 
Binney. 
Mr. John Blackwall, F.L.S., who died May 11, 1881, was 
born in Manchester in 1789, and the greater portion of his 
92 years were devoted to the study of science. During his 
residence at Crumpsall Old Hall he made many interesting 
observations in natural history. The papers read before this 
and other societies were collected into a volume entitled 
“ Researches in Zoology,” which, originally published in 
1834, came to a second edition in 1873. His Memoirs, 
chronicled in the Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific 
Papers, are 82 in number, and were printed between 1821 
Peoceedinos— Lit. & Phil. Soc.— -Vol. XXI.— No. 10. — Session 1881-2. 
