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Ordinary Meeting, January 87th, 1863. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The President said that during the last few years the 
MS. papers of the late Mr. Sturgeon, the electrician, and 
Professor Eaton .Hodgkinson, F.R.S., had been presented to 
the Society, and were now deposited in its archives. The 
Council had resolved to collect, as far as possible, all MSS, 
by the late illustrious President of the Society, Dr. Dalton. 
He thought that this Society was the most proper depository 
for the scientific papers or correspondence of any of its deceased 
members. As it was probable that members and other 
parties might possess papers and correspondence of the late 
Dr. Dalton, he hoped that they would be induced to present 
them to the Society. He was sure that their excellent 
Librarian would devote great care in cataloguing and 
arranging the papers, and that they could not be in better 
custody than in the Society with which that illustrious 
philosopher had been connected for so long a period of his 
life. • 
Mr. Baxendell, referring to the nebula discovered by 
Mr. Hind, in 1858, in the constellation Tqurus, but which 
has since disappeared : and to the variable star near its north 
following edge, stated that he had lately found that another 
Pboceemnos— Lit, and Phil. Socieix— No. 7.— Session 18G2-3. 
