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Annual Meeting, April 28th, 1868. 
Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Professor John Tyndall, LL.D., F.R.S.; Professor Peter 
Guthrie Tait, M.A., F.R.S.E.; and Charles Darwin, Esq., 
M.A., F.R.S., were elected Honorary Members of the So- 
ciety. 
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, the gene- 
ral balance of the Treasurer’s account on the 1st of April, 
1868, being £267 19s. 2d., against £250 2s. Id. on the 1st 
of April, 1867. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the So- 
ciety on the 1st of April, 1867, was 180, and four new mem- 
bers have since been elected. The losses have been by 
death, four; by resignations, four ; and defaulters, two. The 
number of members on the roll on the 1st of April, 1868, 
was 174. The deceased members are, Mr. John Clowes 
Grundy, Mr. James Aspinall Turner, Mr. Thomas Heelis, 
F.R.A.S., and Mr. Henry Houldsworth. 
Mr. Turner held a high place among the principal mer- 
chants and manufacturers of Manchester, and was twice 
chosen by his fellow citizens (in 1857 and 1859) to repre- 
Pkoceedings— Lit. & Phil. Society.— Yol. YII,— No. 14— Session 1867-8. 
