PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
MANCHESTER 
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Ordinary Meeting, October 6th, 1885. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.KS., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following letter from Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 
was read : — 
‘"Victoria Park, Manchester, 
“Oc^. 6, 1885. 
“ My dear President, 
“ I regret much that I cannot be present at the meeting 
this evening to express my hearty concurrence in the vote 
of thanks which you are to move to Mr. Wilde. The Society, 
and Manchester science, owe him a deep debt of gratitude, 
for the very liberal way in which he has placed our building 
in a complete and thorough state of repair and embellishment. 
I trust that we may look forward to a successful session, 
not only on behalf of our own Society, but of that of the 
other Societies which will be our tenants. 
“ I am, yours truly, 
“H. E. Roscoe. 
“ The President Lit. and Phil. Soc.” 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc.— Vol. XXV.— No. 1.— Session 1885-6. 
