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Annual Meeting, April 20th, 1869. 
R. Angus Smith, Ph.D., FRS., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Report of the Council was read by one of 
the Secretaries : — 
The Council have again to report that the Society’s 
finances continue in a satisfactory state; the general 
balance of the Treasurer’s account on the 31st of March 
last being £252. 16s. 9d., against £267. 19s. 2d. on the 31st 
March, 1868, and £250. 2s. Id. on the 31st March, 1867. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1868, was 174, and 7 new 
members have since been elected. The losses during the 
year have been— deaths, 3 ; resignations, 7 ; defaulters, 4 ; 
and one ordinary member elected an honorary member. 
The number on the roll on the 1st of April instant was 
therefore 166. The deceased members are Mr. Robert 
Worthington, F.R.A.S. ; Mr. J. Macfarlane; and Mr, J. S. 
Perring, C.E. 
Mr. Worthington for several years filled the office of 
Treasurer, and discharged its various duties with unfailing 
care and regularity. He had long taken an active and useful 
part in other societies besides this for the promotion of 
literature and science, and the lively interest which he felt 
in astronomical studies was shown by the erection of his 
excellent observatory at Crumpsall Hall, which attained a 
high position among the private observatories of Europe, 
and has been the means of making not a few important 
contributions to the branch of science on which his attention 
was more especially fixed. 
The Library of the Society continues to receive numerous 
and very valuable contributions of Memoirs, Proceedings, 
and other publications of the many learned and scientific 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Society.-Yol.YIII— N o, 15.— Session, 1868-9. 
