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The Council congratulate the members on the possession 
of the life-like bust of the late Professor Hodgkinson, which, 
thanks to the liberality of a. few gentlemen, now adorns our 
rooms ; and they also notice that Mr. Robert Rawson is 
engaged in preparing a valuable Memoir of our deeply 
lamented friend, the first half of which has already been 
read before the Society. 
Of the Honorary and Corresponding Members, the Council 
have to notice the deaths of the celebrated French philosopher, 
M. Biot, and Dr. Peter Barlow, F.R.S. 
Notwithstanding the natural claims which the late very 
successful meeting of the British Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, in Manchester, made upon the scientific 
resources of our town, it is gratifying to observe no falling 
off either in the quality or quantity of the original communi- 
cations presented to the Society during the past Session. 
The following is the list of Papers and Communications 
laid before the Society in the Session 1861-62: — 
October 1 st, 1861. — “Observations of Comet I, 1861,” by J. 
Baxendell, F.R.A.S. 
October 15th, 1861. — “ On the Irregular Barometric Oscillations 
at Geneva and on the Great St. Bernard, and their relations to the 
Mean Temperature and the Fall of Rain,” by G. V. Vernon, 
F.R.A.S. 
October 29th, 1861. — “ On the Putrefaction of Blood,” No. 1, by 
Dr. R. Angus Smith, F.R.S. 
November 2 9th, 1861. — “ Additional Observations on the Per- 
mian Beds of South Lancashire,” by E. W. Binney, F.R.S., &c. 
“ On certain Scales of some Diurnal Lepidoptera,” by Mr. John 
Watson. 
December \0th, 1861. — “Nouveau Systeme de Communication 
Telegraphique, rendant impossible toute collision de trains sur les 
chemins de fer,” by Professor Baulet, of Persignan, communicated 
by W. Fairbairn, LL.D., &c. 
