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Annual Meeting, April 19th, 1870, 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Charles Lowe was elected an Ordinary Member of 
the Society. 
The following Report of the Council was read by one of 
the Secretaries : — • 
The Council have again the satisfaction to report that the 
Society’s finances continue in a healthy condition. From 
the copies of the Treasurer’s account already in the hands of 
the members, it will be seen that the income of the past 
year has exceeded the expenditure, and that the general 
balance on the 31st of March last was £268 Is. 2d. against 
£252 16s. 9d. on the 31st of March, 1869. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the So- 
ciety on the 1st of April, 1869, was 166, and 5 new members 
have since been elected. The losses during the year have 
been — deaths, 3 ; resignations, 5 ; and defaulters, 2. The 
number on the roll on the 1st of April instant was, therefore, 
161. The deceased members are Dr. James Prince Lee, 
F.R.S., Lord Bishop of Manchester; Mr. Eddowes Bowman, 
M.A.; and Mr. George Parr, jun. 
James Prince Lee, F.R.S., Bishop of Manchester, was 
elected a member of the Society in the year 1849. 
Although, from his failing health, he has been unable for 
the last few years to take any active part in the institutions 
for its promotion, he had from the time of his residence 
here shown a deep interest in all that concerns the 
advancement of science amongst us. He was a ripe 
scholar, and few men were better acquainted with Greek 
literature, and the early history of the Church. He was 
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