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necessarily heavy expenditure incurred in the printing 
of the Proceedings and of the volume I., 3rd series, 
of Memoirs, which is now ready for distribution. This 
improvement is mainly owing to the fact that the members 
have almost unanimously supported the Council in their 
proposal to raise the subscription to £2. 2s. per annum, as 
the only available means of enabling the Society successfully 
to carry out its objects. The number of ordinary members 
on the books last year was 207 ; it is now 204. Since the 
last Annual Meeting seven members have resigned, eight 
new members have been elected, and four ordinary members 
have died, viz., Professor Eaton Hodglcinson, F.R.S. ; Dr. 
M. Satterthwaite ; Mr. Absolam Watkin ; and Mr. George 
Woodhead. 
Professor Hodgkinson’s high scientific eminence as an 
experimentalist and as the founder of the principles of 
many branches of mechanical science, is now universally 
acknowledged ; and the members will be proud to recollect 
that our illustrious townsman was for 41 years connected 
with the Society, and that it was through the medium of our 
Memoirs that the greater part of Hodgkinson’s important 
researches were made known. 
The following is the list of Papers published by Professor 
Hodgkinson in the Society’s Memoirs : — 
(1) Vol. iv., 2nd series, p. 225. — “ On the Transverse Strain and 
Strength of Materials,” read March 22nd, 1822. 
(2) Vol. v., second series, p. 354. — “ On the Fox*ms of the Cate- 
nary in Suspension Bridges,” read February 8th, 1828. 
(3.) Vol. v., second series, p. 384. — “On the Chain Bridge at 
Broughton,” read February 8th, 1828. 
(4) Yol. v., second series, p. 398. — “A few Remarks on the 
Menai Bridge,” read December 12th, 1828. 
(5) Vol. v., second series, p. 407. — “On the Strength and best 
Forms of Iron Beams,” read April 2nd, 1830. 
(6) Yol. vii., second series. — “On the Measure of Moving 
Force,” read April 30th, 1844. 
