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consideration, the Committee have not yet been able to pre- 
sent their report, hut hope to he able to do so at an early 
meeting in the ensuing session. 
Since the last annual meeting the proceedings of the Sec- 
tions have been marked by the same activity and interest 
which have characterised them from their establishment. In 
connexion with the Sections the Council refer Avith satisfac- 
tion to the success Avhich has attended the scheme for 
admitting Sectional Associates. Twenty gentlemen have 
availed themselves of the advantages Avhich it offers ; and 
by the communications some of them have made, and the 
part they have taken in the discussions of the various sub- 
jects that have been brought under notice, they have added 
much to the interest and usefulness of the meetings. 
The folloAving is a list of the communications made to the 
Society at its ordinary and sectional meetings during the 
past session : 
October 4 th, 1864. — “Remarks on Mr. Dyer’s Paper, entitled 
‘Notes on Spinning Machines,’” by H. Brierly, Esq., communi- 
cated by E. W. Binney, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 
October 18£/j, 1864. — “On the Relation of Force to Matter and 
Mind. Part I.,” by the Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S., 
Hon. Mem. 
October \3th, 1864, — “Note on a New Star near the Greenwich 
Variable, No. 1773, of the Twelve-Year Catalogue,” by Joseph 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
October 17 th, 1864. — “On a Contrh r ance for regulating the 
amount of light transmitted from the Source of Illumination to 
the Mirror of the Microscope,” by J. B. Dancer, F.R.A.S. 
November 15th, 1864. — “On the Composition of the Atmos- 
phere,” by R. Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.R.S., President of the Society. 
November 29th, 1864. — “On Differential Equations,” by His 
Honour Chief Justice Cockle, M.A., F.R.A.S., &c., communicated 
by the Rev. Robert Harley, F.R.S., &c. 
November 29 th, 1864. — “Notes on Marine Shells found in 
Stratified Drift at Macclesfield,” by R. D. Darbishire, B.A, F.G.S. 
