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Ordinary Meeting, February 4th, 1862. 
J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Binney said that soon after the death of Professor 
Eaton Hodgkinson, F.R.S., one of the former Presidents of 
the Society, and a man of science, of whom not only this 
Society, but the city of Manchester, has good reason to be 
proud, a few of his friends and admirers gave a commission 
to Mr. Slater, the sculptor, of London, to execute a bust of 
the deceased, to be presented to this Society. As his valuable 
memoirs, which gave to the world the formulae for solid and 
hollow pillars of cast iron, now the basis of calculation on all 
structures of that metal, were printed in our Transactions, it 
was thought that the Flail of the Literary and Philosophical 
Society of Manchester was the fittest place for the bust of 
their discoverer. 
The following gentlemen, viz., our worthy President, 
J. P. Joule, LL.D., F.R.S., E. Schunck, F.R.S., James 
Heywood, F.R.S., John Hawkshaw, C.E., I'.R.S., Joseph 
Whitworth, F.R.S., R. P. Greg, F.G.S., Thomas Turner, 
F.R.C.S., G. R. Stephenson, C.E., Robert Rawson, and E. W. 
Binney, F.R.S., present the bust to the Society. In doing 
so it would not be necessary for him to allude to the great 
talents and many virtues of the deceased, as his friend Mr. 
Robert Rawson was now engaged in writing a Memoir, to 
be communicated to the Society; but he could not omit 
reading a letter which shoAved Iioav the present President 
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 
hailed the election of Mr. Hodgkinson as the successor of the 
late Dr. Holme to the chair of this Society. It was as folloAvs : 
— “ Chester and Holyhead Railway Company, Conway, 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil, Society— No. 10. — Session 1861-62. 
