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Ordinary Meeting, January 10th, 1871. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
The President, in the name of Mr. Bernard Hartley 
Green, of this city, solicitor, presented to the Society 
another memorandum book of one of the original members 
of the Society, Mr. George Walker. In it is some curious 
information as to the postal system and the cotton trade a 
century since. As to the former, it is stated that the packet 
for North America is dispatched from the post office in 
London the first Wednesday in every month. N.B. No 
postage to pay with letters in. The mails to all parts of 
Eui’ope are dispatched from the General Post Office every 
Tuesday and Friday night at 12 o’clock, so that letters must 
go into the office at Manchester on Wednesday morning 
and Saturday night. “ Novr. 1774, Sent a Letter to Messrs. 
Anderson and Lothian in Glasgow, by express, Manchester 
to Glasgow, by way of Wetherby, Newcastle and Edinburgh, 
309 miles. 
Paid for 309 measured miles at 3d. per mile £3 17 3 
Paid for 20 stages 10 6 
„ for sending off. 2 6 
4 10 3 
Express to London at 3d. per mile 2 5 9 
14 stages at 6d 7 0 
Sending off at Manchester 2 6 
2 15 3 
Pbookedincm — Lie. & Phil. Soo.— Vol. X. — No. 8. — Session 1870-71. 
