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General Meeting, November l7th, 1885. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.K.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
Dr. B. Carrington, F.B.S.E., of Ecdes; Mr. Thomas Arm- 
strong. Optician, of Manchester ; and Mr. Harconrt Phillips, 
F.C.S., of Manchester, were elected Ordinary Members of 
the Society. 
Ordinary Meeting, November 17th, 1885. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.K.,S., President, 
in the Chair. 
William Brockbank, F.L.S., F.G.S., exhibited a complete 
series of the illustrations of flowers by the late Dean Her- 
bert, including a number of his original sketches. 
The Honourable William Herbert was the third son of 
Henry, first Earl of Carnarvon, born 1778, educated at Eton 
and Exeter College, Oxford, M.A. in 1802, and D.D., 1841. 
He was made Rector of Spofibrth, near Wetherby, in 1814, 
and held that living up to his death. Born a Whig, and 
being a supporter of Lord Melbourne's government, he was 
a.ppointed Warden of Christ’s College, Manchester, on the 
death of Dr. Calvert, in 1840. He died suddenly in 1847, 
set. 70. He was thus only about seven years amongst us in 
Manchester, 1840-7; and it was during this period that the 
Bishopric was created, and he became Dean. ‘He was the 
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