OF THE LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, DURING THE THIRTY-EIGHTH AND THIRTY-NINTH SESSIONS, 1849 TO 1851. No. VI. LIVERPOOL: DEIGHTON AND LAUGHTON. MDCCCLI. NOTE. The Council beg it to be understood that the Authors are alone responsible for the sentiments expressed in these pages. Only such papers as have been read during the Session reported can be printed. Back papers may be referred to in illustration, the Council deciding whether any part shall be printed. Extract from the Laws. 43. Papers by Corresponding Members may be read by the Ordinary Member presenting them, or by the Secretary. 44. A Member may lay before the Society, with the sanction of the Council, an unpublished paper or essay by any person not a member of the Society. 45. Party politics, and controversial Divinity, are expressly excluded. ENTERED AT STATIONER'S HALL.] CONTENTS. Papers read before the Society, in Italics; those marked thus are given abridged or Statement of Accounts, 1848-49 and 1849-50..vi, vii Report of Retiring Council, Session xxxvii ..... *Booth, Rev. Dr.-Valedictory Address... 11 |