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Society by bringing it into more intimate contact with the 
workers of science, and thereby offering inducements to 
authors of merit to send valuable papers to our Transactions, 
knowing that in so doing they have the opportunity of sub- 
mitting their work to the judgment of meti of eminence. 
The Council has resolved that there shall be an election of 
honorary members annually in March ; also that a book 
shall be provided wherein the members of the Society may 
inscribe the names of any gentlemen whom they deem 
worthy of the Council’s recommendation for election. 
At various times it has been urged that the entrance fee 
paid by new members is too high. The Council has received 
a notice signed by five members to call an extraordinary 
general meeting to consider the reduction of the fee to one- 
half. A notice of this meeting has been sent to the members 
announcing the resolution to be submitted after the business 
of the annual meeting. 
The following papers and communications have been read 
at the ordinary and sectional meetings of the Society during 
the session : — 
October 6th^ 1885 .-— Notes on the early history of the Man- 
chester Literary and Philosophical Society,” by James Bottomley, 
D.Sc. 
“ On the meaning of addition and subtraction in logic,” by 
Joseph John Murphy 3 communicated by the Bev. Robert Harley, 
F.R.S. 
‘‘ On ocular spectra,” by Alfred Brothers, F.R.A.S. 
October 12th^ 1885 . — On the structure of the clay slate of 
Snaefell,” by Prof. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. 
“ On the conglomerate beds of the old red sandstone at 
Dunottar Castle, Kincardineshire,” by Mark Stirrup, F.G.S, 
October Wtli^ 1885 . — On the dilatancy of granular media,” 
with experiments, by Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S. 
