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Hobson.”* Among the persons who have taken a prominent 
part in connection with the scientific institutions of Manchester 
during the last fifty years, it would be difficult to point to one 
more generally respected than Mr. Moore. Mr. James 
Woolley had been a member of the Society since 1842. For 
several successive years he was elected a member of the 
Council, and he held that office at the time of his death, 
which took place on the 30th of January of this year. The 
subjects with which Mr. Woolley was most conversant \yere 
chemistry and pharmacy. A “ Memoir of Dalton from the 
Journal of the late Jonathan Otley,” read before the Society, 
was from his pen. 
Since the last Annual Meeting a measure of great impor- 
tance has been adopted and carried out by the Council in 
obedience to a resolution passed at that meeting. It had for a 
long time been a subject of complaint with many. members of 
the Society, that too long an interval elapsed between the 
reading of papers at the meetings and their publication in the 
Memoirs, a circumstance which tended to deprive papers of a 
portion of the interest which a more speedy publication would 
have ensured them. A Committee was accordingly appointed 
to consider whether means could not be devised for securing 
the more rapid publication of the Memoirs. In this Report, 
which was presented at the last Annual Meeting, the Com- 
mittee recommended that every paper read before the Society 
should be printed in extenso and published within a month of 
its being read, and that the separate papers should, at the 
conclusion of the session, be collected and bound together to 
constitute the usual annual volume. These recommendations 
were however not adopted, and in their place the tollowing 
resolutions, proposed by Dr. Joule, were carried : — 
“ That it is desirable that this Society should publish its 
Proceedings, as well as its Memoirs.” 
♦Now Series, Vol. VI., p. 297. 
