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institution. The ordinary Members deceased during the 
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last financial year are Mr. George Mosley, Mr. John Gould, 
Mr. John Jessie, arid Dr. Edward Stephens. 
Mr. Mosley was associated with the Society for some years, 
having been admitted an ordinary member in January, 1859, 
and elected a Member of the Council in April, 1861. lie 
took a prominent part in the formation and working of the 
microscopical section of which he was the honorary secretary. 
He organised a scheme for procuring soundings from different 
parts of the world, for the purpose of investigating the various 
formations of the sea and ocean beds ; his labours in this 
direction met with great success, and the Society now possesses 
a large number of specimens which are in process of arrange- 
ment and classification. As an accurate observer and inde- 
fatigable student of the microscope, his place will not be 
easily filled. 
The list of honorary members has suffered a great loss in the 
death of Mr. Richard Roberts, C.E. This gentleman, now 
generally acknowledged to have been one of the first mechani- 
cians of our time, was admitted as an ordinary Member of 
the Society in the year 1823, April 16, and on his removal 
from Manchester he was elected in April, 1863, an Honorary 
Member. The mechanical inventions of Mr. Roberts were 
of the most varied and important description ; the best known 
of his inventions was the improvement of Crompton’s mule, 
so as to render it self-acting, and his improvements in 
engineering tools. His first patent for the former purpose 
was taken out in March, 1825, and a second patent for an 
improved process was granted to him in July, 1830. Mr. 
Roberts obtained nearly thirty patents in England for the 
following useful subjects : — hand and power looms, machines 
for preparing and spinning fibrous substances, steam engines, 
locomotive carriages, apparatus for punching, shearing, and 
perforating metals, beetling and mangling machines, clocks, 
watches, and other timekeepers, machine for hoisting weights, 
