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Annual General Meeting, April l7th, 1877. 
R Angus Smith, Ph.D., F.RS., &c., Vice-President, in the 
Chair. 
Report of the Council, April, 1877. 
The Treasurer’s account shows that the ordinary balance 
is £46 2s. lljd. against £94 8s. 7d. on the 81st of March, 
1876 ; but there is owing to the Society one year’s rent from 
the Geological Society, and half a year’s rent from the 
Scientific Student’s Association, which makes an available 
balance of £87 10s. against £S8 last year. 
The number of ordinary members on the roll of the 
Society on the 1st of April, 1876, was 163 and 7 new 
members have since been elected ; the losses are — deaths 1 ; 
resignations 4 ; defaulters 3. The number on the roll on 
the 1st instant was 162. The deceased member is 
Mr. Henry Deacon, F.C.S. 
Mr. Henry Deacon was born in London on the 80th July, 
1822, and was apprenticed to Messrs. Galloway and Sons, 
Engineers, in London, at the age of 14, when he left school; 
his taste at that time having been chiefly in the direction 
of Mechanics. He obtained however a taste for Chemistry 
from Faraday, and may be regarded as one of the few pupils 
of that distinguished man. As F araday d id not formal ly take 
pupils, this exception may be considered as a great favour 
owing to family friendship ; and to this part of his life Mr. 
Deacon often referred with great pleasure. Mr. Deacon left 
the firm of Galloway and Sons and was engaged at a no less 
eminent firm, that of Nasmyth and Gaskell of Pcxtricroft, 
near Manchester, and soon by his ability and industry rose 
to be held in very friendly relations by those around him. 
PfiocEEDiNas — L it. & Phil. Soc. — Yol. XYL — No. 13— Session 1876-7. 
