ERRATA. Page 34, line 8-for Rumkorff read Ruhmkorff. 73, 75, 87, 88, 90, 93, 128, 15-for sensless read senseless. 6-for seasicknes read seasickness. 27-for succomb read succumb. 4 from foot-for Mellon read Melon. 4-for Valerianilla read Valerianella. 5-for dicolyledonous read dicotolyedonous. 3 from foot-delete weight. 19-for stork's bill read stork's-bill. 16-for yarrellii read Yarrellii. 171, at foot-for 1860 read 1800. 174, line 21-for on read ou. 4 from foot-for their objects read these objects. THE LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. ANNUAL MEETING— FORTY-NINTH SESSION. ROYAL INSTITUTION, October 3rd, 1859. THOMAS INMAN, Esq., M.D., PRESIDENT, in the Chair. The SECRETARY commenced the business of the evening by reading the following Report, which, on the motion of Mr. Higginson, seconded by Mr. Samuelson, was unanimously adopted : At the opening of last Session the Society numbered 195 members, of whom 43 were corresponding and 152 ordinary members. It now enrols 190. To the ordinary members of last year six have been added by election, two removed by death, and eight withdrawn by resignation. The Society has to regret the demise of one of its oldest members, the late Sir John Salusbury, who continued to the last to take a deep interest in its proceedings, though from infirm health he was rarely an attendant at its meetings. In alluding to the loss by death of Mr. James Wright Whitehead, of the firm of Whitehead and Meyer, merchants, Liverpool, the Society pays but a small tribute to his worth. From an early age he found great pleasure in the study of natural history, and more recently gave much of his time to the acquisition of specimens of the mollusca. The collection of shells in his cabinet was select, carefully named, admirably arranged, and particularly rich in northern species. Mr. Whitehead was an observer as well as a collector of the mollusca, and the Society will have to associate the hearing of many instructive and original remarks upon the subject with his respected memory. From the corresponding members of last year one, too, has been removed by death, Mr. Thomas Nuttall, F.L.S. respecting whom the Council cannot better speak than in the words. of the Rev. Henry H. Higgins, in his letter to the Secretary: DEAR SIR, "At your request I enclose a few notes relating to my respected friend, Professor Thomas Nuttall, who died at Nut-grove, St. Helens, September 10th, 1859, aged 73 years. "An account of the early part of his life, and of his travels in the Arkansas territory, was published in one volume, octavo, at Philadelphia, in 1819. To this I have not had access; nor have I thought it desirable, on the present occasion, to apply to sources of information which are open to others. For a biographical notice of this truly good and distinguished man, Dr. Emerson, of Boston, U. S., Mr. W. Carpenter, of Philadelphia, and Sir William Hooker, possess abundant materials, of which no doubt the public will in due time have the advantage. "For the last six years, however, I have myself had very frequent opportunities of seeing Mr. Nuttall, and it is with mingled pride and regret that I now look back to the time during which I enjoyed the advantage of his society, and the privilege of his friendship. The few following incidents are taken from his own account, given' during the last year of his illness. "Mr. Nuttall went with his uncle to America in the year 1807, and remained there till the breaking out of the American war. He then came to England, but returned to America as soon as peace was restored. He was for twelve years Professor of Natural History in the American University of Cambridge. Having an estate left to him on condition of residence, he again came to England in 1841, and since that time has resided in his own house at Nut-grove. "Whilst he was in America Mr. Nuttall delivered several courses of lectures on botany, which were never published. The materials for a work entitled 'Townsend's Journey across the Rocky Mountains,' from the Commencement as far as the Passage of the Red River, were taken from Mr. Nuttall's notes, and published without acknowledgement. Amongst other works, Mr. Nuttall himself published Genera and Species of North American Plants,' (Philadelphia, 2 vols.,) 'Continuation of Michaux's Sylva Americana,' (3 vols. royal 8vo, plates,) and many papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. "Since his final return to England Mr. Nuttall has been engaged in botanical researches of various kinds, aided by the efforts of his nephew, Mr. Jonas Booth, who from the Himalayan mountains, and from various parts of India, transmitted to Nut-grove cases containing plants valuable, and in some instances new, to science. Mr. Nuttall's pre-eminent acquaintance with the rhododendrons is well known, and the species of that genus which is facile princeps bears his name. "Mr. Nuttall was no doubt chiefly a botanist; indeed, he has often been called the father of American botany, but his attainments as a man of science were by no means limited to an acquaintance with the vegetable kingdom. The members of a natural history club in Liverpool, whose meetings he frequently attended, were often surprised to find the professor equally at home whether the subject under discussion was |