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Annual General Meeting, April 18th, 1876. 
Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., &c., President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Robert Ellis Cunliffe, of Manchester, and Mr. Thomas 
Hornby Birley, of Somerville, near Manchester, were elected 
Ordinary Members of the Society. 
Report of the Council , April , 1876. 
The Treasurer’s account shows that in consequence of the 
large outlay required for the repair and beautifying of the 
property, the renewal of upholstery, the charges for the 
incorporation of the Society, binding books, and a new cata- 
logue, the expenditure for the year has been £824 11s. lid. 
in excess of the income, and has diminished the balance to 
that amount; but the ordinary expenditure, allowing an 
average amount for binding and assistance in the library, 
would be within the income. 
The ordinary balance is £94 8s. 7d., and there is due to 
the Society one year’s rent from the Geological Society, 
which would make £125, less accounts owing for periodi- 
cals, £10, and voted for binding and not paid, £27, leaving 
an available balance of about £88. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1875, was 169, and 3 new 
members have since been elected ; the losses are— -deaths, 
2 ; resignations, 2 ; and defaulters, 2. The number on the 
roll on the 1st of April instant was, therefore, 166. 
The deceased members are Murray Gladstone and William 
Jackson Rideout. 
Mr. Murray Gladstone, who died on August 23, 1875, was 
the fifth son of Robert Gladstone of Liverpool, where he 
Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc.— Vol. XV.— No. 10.— Session 1875-6, 
