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Annual General Meeting, April 20th, 1880. 
J. P. Joule, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &c.. President, in the 
Chair. 
Report of the Council, April, 1880. 
The Treasurer’s annual Account appended to this report 
shows that the balance against the General Fund Account 
has been reduced from £113 Os. lid. on the 1st of April, 
1879, to £57 Os. 2d. on the 1st of April, 1880 ; that there is 
now a balance of £56 10s. 5d. in favour of the Natural 
History Fund Account; and deducting the difference between 
these two sums from the Compounders’ Fund, £125, there is 
a balance of £124 10s. 3d. in favour of the Society on the 
1st April, 1880, against a balance of only £8 10s. on the 
1st of April, 1879. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1879, was 160, and three new 
members have been elected ; six members have resigned, 
and the number on the roll on the 1st instant was therefore 
157. 
At the last annual meeting of the Society a resolution 
was passed urging on the Governors of Owens College the 
great importance of completing the buildings for a Museum 
of Natural History with the least possible delay. In reply 
to this resolution the following Minute from the Owens 
College was forwarded to the President : 
“At a meeting of the Council held at the College on 
Friday, the 21st November, 1879, 
“ It was resolved : 
• “That the Treasurer be requested to inform Dr. Joule 
that the Council is deeply impressed with the importance of 
proceeding -with the erection of the buildings necessary for 
Proceedings — Lit* & Phil. Soc. — Yol, XTX.— No. 14. — Session 1879-80. 
