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General Meeting, February 6th, 1876. 
E. W. Binney, F.B.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chain 
Mr. John Henrj^ Poynting, B.A., B.Sc., Demonstrator in 
the Physical Laboratory, Owens College, and Mr. William 
Garnett, of Quernmore Park, Lancaster, were elected 
ordinary members of the Society. 
Ordinary Meeting, February 6th, 1877. 
E. W. Binney, F.B.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
“Notice of the Junior Literary and Philosophical Society 
of Manchester, 1806-1807,” by William E. A. Axon, 
M.B.S.L. 
Mr. Axon presented to the Library of the Society a small 
manuscript volume formerly belonging to Alderman John 
Shuttleworth. It was the minute-book of a Junior Literary 
and Philosophical Society formed April 29th, 1806, the 
original members being Messrs. Peter Clare, Kinder Wood, 
Godfrey Fox, E. B. Kent, Hall, Frith Jordan and 
and Goodlad, subsequent members being Messrs. Thomas 
Hanson, Thomas Philips, John Oliver, John Shuttleworth, 
Edwin Watt, John Hodson, John Lowe, John Stevenson. 
The meetings were held fortnightly in the chapel in Cross- 
street, the members being required to give a lecture or 
paper in rotation, any member coming after seven to be 
fined 6d., if absent entirely to pay 2s. 6d. The society was 
to meet for general literary purposes, those branches of the 
art of Medicine not comi ug under the heads of anatomjq 
physiology, and chemistry, were excluded. This restriction 
was afterwards abolished. 
Proceedings — Lit. & Phil. Soc. — Vol. XVI. — No. 8. — Session 1876-7i 
