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PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SECTION. 
Animal Meeting, March 26th, 1872. 
Joseph Baxendell, F.R.A.S., President of the Section, in 
the Chair. 
The following gentlemen were elected officers of the 
Section for the ensuing year : — 
^presiKcnt. 
JOSEPH BAXENDELL, F.R.A.S. 
Dtcc=lprc9tKcnt3. 
E. W. BINNEY, P.R.S., F.G.S. ALFRED BROTHERS, F.R.A.S. 
Sccrctarp. 
G. Y. VERNON. F.R.A.S., F.M.S. 
©vcasurcr. 
THOMAS CARRICK. 
April 23rd, 1872. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., Vice-President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
“ Results of Rain Gauge Observations made at Eccles, 
near Manchester, during the year 1871,” by Thomas Mack- 
ereth, F.R.A.S., F.M.S. 
The rainfall of the past year, as will be seen from a table 
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