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once proceed to endeavour to sell the Peter-street site, to 
be delivered up in June, 1873, for money or for rent, as 
may seem best. In the latter case it had been agreed be- 
tween the commissioners and the college that the college 
should pay £60 per annum as interest at 4 per cent, on 
£1,500 until the principal shall have been paid over to the 
society. The Council have now to report that the Peter-street 
site has not yet been sold, but on the 20th of November last 
a letter was addressed by Mr. Harbishire to Mr. H. A. Hurst, 
the treasurer of the Microscopical and Natural History Sec- 
tion, stating that by an arrangement made on that day 
between the commissioners of the Peter-street Museum and 
the Owens College the Museum Trust in the hands of the 
college will pay to the Philosophical Society, for the present, 
interest upon the sum of £1,500 at 4 per cent, from that date. 
The first half-yearly payment will therefore become due on 
the 20th of May next. 
At a meeting of the Council held on the 7th of January 
last, a committee was appointed to consider and report 
upon the desirability of incorporating the society, and of 
acceding to an application of the Manchester Geological 
Society for permission to hold its meetings and keep its 
library within this society’s buildings. Resolutions em- 
bodying the recommendations of this committee will be 
submitted this evening for the approval of the members of 
the society. 
In May of last year, Hr. R. Angus Smith, F.R.S., a vice- 
president of this society, attended on behalf of the society 
the centenary celebration of the foundation of the Royal 
Academy of Sciences of Belgium, and a medal lias this day 
been received commemorative of this interesting event. 
The following papers and communications have been 
read at the ordinary and sectional meetings of the society 
during the session now closing : — 
October ls£, 1872. — “On the Composition of Ammonium Amal- 
gam,” by lv. Routledge, B.Sc. 
