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deficiency under this head Mr. Henry Wilde has continued 
his previous generous benefactions by paying the sum of 
£22 Os. 4d. to the Society’s bankers. The total expendi- 
ture, since the commencement of the Fund in the session 
1883-4, has amounted to £4077 11s. 
The Fire Account . — It was stated in last year’s report 
that the Insurance Companies had paid the claims in full 
which the Society had made upon them in respect of losses 
suffered from the fire in the adjoining block of buildings. 
In the session just closed the payments for renovating the 
premises have amounted to £176 16s. 2d., and, with the 
expenditure of £8 10s. 6d. in the previous session, there 
remains a sum of £60 12s. 7d. at the credit of this account. 
In the receipts it will be noticed that the account for the 
Use of the Society’s Rooms shows an increase upon the 
figures of last year, £116 having been received in the course 
of the session. The Societies which are now accommodated 
in the building are the following : — Manchester Geological 
Society; Manchester Medical Society; Manchester Scientific 
Students’ Association ; Manchester Photographic Society. 
The Manchester Microscopical Society has also met in the 
rooms since January. 
The following papers and communications have been read 
at the ordinary and sectional meetings of the Society during 
the session : — 
September 20th, 1886 . — ‘‘On the present state of onr knowledge 
of the Carboniferous Calami tinse,” by Prof. W. C.Williamson, F.R.S. 
October 19th, 1886 . — “On Volcanic Dust from Tarawera, New 
Zealand,” by Thomas Kay. 
“ On an Improved Form of Rheostat,” by W. W. Haldane 
Gee, B.So. 
November 2nd, 1886 . — “Measurements of the Magnetic Induc- 
tion and Permeability in Soft Iron,” by H. Holden, B.Sc., 
communicated by Dr. A. Schuster, F.R.S. 
“The Action of Hydrochloric Acid Gas on certain Metals,” 
by J. B. Cohen, Ph.D., F.C.S., communicated by Dr. A. Schuster, 
F.R.S. 
