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Annual General Meeting, April 30th, 1878. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. William Dugdale Harland, of Manchester, was elected 
an Ordinary Member of the Society. 
Report of the Council , April , 1878. 
It will be seen from the Treasurer’s Annual Statement 
appended to this report that there is apparently a balance 
against the General Account of £10 14s. 5d.; but this is 
much more than covered by rents which are due from the 
Geological Society and the Scientific Students’ Association 
for the use of the Society’s rooms. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1877, was 162, and three new 
members have since been elected; the losses are — deaths 4; 
resignations 4; defaulter 1. The number on the roll on the 
1st instant was 156. The deceased members are Mr. Colin 
Mather, Mr. G. V. Vernon, F.R.A.S., Mr. W. L. Dickinson, 
and Mr. John Thomas Hobson. 
Mr. George Venables Vernon was the only son of Mr. 
John Venables Vernon, of the firm of Vernon and Edge, 
engravers to calico printers, David-street, Manchester, and 
was born on the 7th of October, 1831. He received a good 
education, and appears to have displayed a strong taste for 
scientific pursuits at an early age. On the 14th of January, 
1853, he was elected a Fellow of the Ro}nxl Astronomical 
Society, and on the 30th of April, 1861, he was elected a 
Member of this Society, and afterwards contributed many 
valuable papers and communications, chiefly on meteoro- 
logical subjects, to its Proceedings and Memoirs. He served 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Soc. — Yol, XYII. — No. 13 — Session 1877-8. 
