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At the last Annual Meeting-, the Society consisted of one 
hundred and eighty-one ordinary members. Sinee then one 
has resigned and three have died, whilst twenty-one new 
members have been elected, making the number at present on 
the list one hundred and ninety-eight. 
Among the deceased members, the most prominent was the 
llev. Henry Halford Jones. Mr. Jones was elected a 
member of this Society in April, 1846, and continued a 
member until March, 1855, when he resigned. He was, 
however, re-elected in January, 1856, and continued a member 
to the time of his death. Mr. Jones served on the Council 
from April, 1849, to April, 1854, and again from April, 
1856, to the period of his death. During four sessions, com- 
mencing in April, 1851, he acted as one of the secretaries of 
the Society. Mr. Jones at all times took a most lively 
interest in the affairs of the Society, both as a member of the 
Council and of the Society at large. The subject to which 
he chiefly devoted his attention was Astronomy. His com- 
municaiions to the Society were not numerous, and only a 
j)ortion of them were printed in the Memoirs. 'I'heir titles 
are as follows : — 
(a) “ Brief remarks on the supposed discovery of a central 
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sun. 
(b) “ On the lengths of degrees, and the corresponding 
latitude of Manchester.” 
(c) “ A biographical notice of Peter Clare, F.H.A.S.” 
(d) “ An account of his compensation pendulum.” 
(c) “ An exemplification of a simple mode of calculating 
the distance of a fixed star whose parallax has been 
ascertained.” 
(y) “ Remarks on the occultation of .Tupifer and his 
satellites by the moon.” 
(rt) Read Feb. 23, 1847. 
(/;) Road Dec. 24, IS.*)!). 
(r) Vol. X., P. 203. 
(rf) Read Oct. 4, 1853. 
(c) Road Dee. .30, 1856. 
(/) Vol. XIV,, P. 151. 
