4th January, 1866. ARCHEOLOGICAL SECTION. WILLIAM MATHISON Esq. in the Chair. The following donations were presented : From the Société d' Emulation du Département de l' Allier. From the Author. La Storia Antica Restituita a Verità e Raffrontata alla Moderna dal The following objects were exhibited : By Mr. Waterhouse. Reprints of The Commonwealth Mercury, containing the official account of the death and lying in state of Oliver Cromwell, 1658, and various other similar reprints. By Captain Aitkin, of Bacup, and Mr. Hartley and Mr. Edmondson, of Bury. Various objects illustrative of Mr. Hardwick's Paper descriptive of the discovery of a Roman hoard in East Lancashire. By Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith, in illustration of his Paper. 1. A collection of Roman and other relics of Verteræ (Brough in Westmoreland) including coins, personal ornaments and horse trappings, with rare seals in pewter of a kind only found at this Roman station, accompanied by lithographs of others lately found at the bottom of the river Bug in Lithuania. 2. A sketch of a very singular primeval object formed out of lias, use unknown, lately discovered on the sea-beach of Devon. The following Papers were read : 1. ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN HOARD IN EAST LANCASHIRE,* by Charles Hardwick Esq.; and 2. NOTICES OF A ROMAN STATION AT BROUGH IN WESTMORELAND,† by Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith. 11th January, 1866. LITERARY SECTION. WILLIAM BURKE Esq., Treasurer, in the Chair. The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members of the D. Maneckjee Lalcaca, Maudsley Buildings, Castle Street. The following donations were presented :- From the Royal Irish Academy. Proceedings, volumes vii and viii, and vol. ix, part 1. From the Royal Institution of Cornwall. Journal, No. iv, October, 1865. The following Paper was read: ON THE CAPABILITIES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, by the Rev. A. Hume, D.C.L., V.P. 18th January, 1866. SCIENTIFIC SECTION. J. T. TOWSON Esq., F.R.G.S., in the Chair. Mr. Richard Holden, Grecian Chambers, 57, Dale Street, was duly elected an ordinary member of the Society. The following donations were presented : From the Royal Geographical Society. Proceedings, vol. ix, No. 6, and vol. x, No. 1. From the Geological Society. Quarterly Journals, Nos. 83 and 84. ON THE AQUATIC PLANTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE SPECIMENS, by Thomas Gibson Esq. 1st February, 1866. ARCHEOLOGICAL SECTION. THOMAS SANSOM Esq., F.B.S.E., in the Chair. The following donations were presented : From the Sussex Archæological Society. From the Manchester Numismatic Society. From the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. From the Editor. The Reliquary, No. 20, vol. v, April, 1865. The following objects were exhibited: By Mr. T. Dawson. A collection of the Autographs of persons locally eminent. By Mr. T. J. Moore. A series of diagrams of Fungi, drawn and coloured by the Rev. The Secretary read a communication from the Dean of Westminster, requesting the support of this Society in a movement for the restoration of the Chapter House at Westminster, especially with reference to the intention to bring the matter under the notice of the Government by a deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was moved by JOHN G. JACOB Esq., seconded by JOHN DAVIES Jun., Esq., and resolved unanimously, That this Society regrets that nothing has been done to repair the Chapter House at Westminster, and anxiously desires to impress upon Her Majesty's Government and upon both Houses of Parliament the desirableness of restoring that edifice without delay to its architectural beauty. The following Paper was read: ON THE MICROSCOPIC FUNGI OF THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT,* by R. G. McLeod, Esq. 8th February, 1866. LITERARY SECTION. From the Royal Society. Proceedings, vol. xiv, Nos. 78 to 80. From the Statistical Society. Journal, vol. xxviii, part 3. From the Royal Irish Academy. Transactions (Polite Literature), part ii. Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith exhibited a copy of an early Scottish ballad called " The Vision: compylit in Latin be a most lernit Clerk, in "time of our Hairship and Oppression, anno 1300, and translatit "in 1524; printed in the year 1748." The following Paper was read: THE ALLEGORY OF SHAKSPEARE'S TEMPEST, by B. L. Benas, Esq. 15th February, 1866. SCIENTIFIC SECTION. THOMAS DAWSON Esq., M.R.C.S., in the Chair. The following donations were presented : From the Royal Geological Society of Ireland. * Transactions, p. 127. By the Chairman. Various books published in Liverpool and some news-letters of the era of the Great Rebellion. By Mr. Thomas Gibson. Numerous specimens of bismuth and other metals. By Mr. Rundell. A great variety of steel plates prepared by the Bessemer process, procured from the works of the Liverpool ship-building company. By Mr. Hughes. Specimens of manufactured iron, in illustration of his Paper. The following Paper was read :— ON SOME OF THE PROCESSES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON, by John R. Hughes Esq. 1st March, 1866. ARCHEOLOGICAL SECTION. JAMES STONEHOUSE Esq. in the Chair. Mr. Samuel Barrow, 323, Vauxhall Road, was duly elected an ordinary member of the Society. The following donations were presented : From the Surrey Archæological Society. From the Author. 1. The present and past rates of freight to London and Liverpool from the South Staffordshire iron district, and 2. Self Help. By Samuel Hill. From the Vancouver Exploration Committee. From the Author. Collections for a Genealogical Account of the Family of Comberbach, by George W. Marshall, LL.B. From the Author. Y Legende of y° Prehistoric Manne of Cheshire. The following objects were exhibited : By Mr. H. Ecroyd Smith. 1. An engraved copy of the front and back of a powder-flask bearing the date 1511, and said to have been presented by Henry VIII to Hardres of Hardres Court, Kent. 2. Coloured drawings of an enamelled Turkish powder-flask of the fifteenth century. The following Paper was read: THE PRIMEVAL ANTIQUITIES OF FURNESS AND CARTMEL, by Henry Barber, M.D. 8th March, 1866. LITERARY SECTION. Rev. A. HUME, D.C.L., Vice-President, in the Chair. Mr. James P. Bath, Garston, was duly elected an ordinary member of the Society. The following donations were presented : From the Archæological Society of London and Middlesex. From the Archæological Society of Norfolk and Norwich. From the Société Archéologique de l'Orléanais. Bulletins, Nos. 47, 48, 49; 1865-66. In illustration of his Paper Mr. Ecroyd Smith exhibited numerous specimens of forest remains found at the spot described by him, with drawings showing its present aspect. The following Paper was read: NOTICE OF A REMARKABLE DISLOCATION OF THE SOIL RESULTING FROM THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONVERGING LINES OF RAILWAY BY RIMROSE BROOK, BOOTLE,* by Mr. Henry Ecroyd Smith. 15th March, 1866. SCIENTIFIC SECTION. Rev. RICHARD R. MOORE, M.A., in the Chair. The following donations were presented :— From the Royal Society. Proceedings, vol. xv, No. 81. From the Kilkenny and South East of Ireland Archæological Society. Proceedings and Papers, vol. iv, No. 45, and vol. v, Nos. 46 to 49. From the Author. Suggestions for a New System of Chemical Nomenclature, by George From the Editor. The Reliquary, vol. vi, No. 23. Transactions, p. 267. |