Liverpool Learned Societies

Abstract

THE newly issued handbook of the Associated Learned Societies of Liverpool and District shows there are about four thousand members of the twenty four scientific, industrial, literary, art and educational societies in the association. One of the largest of the industrial societies, the Liverpool Engineering Society, has some seven hundred members, and the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club is the largest of the Nature and outdoor societies. Since the last handbook was issued ten years ago, the number of learned societies in the association has fallen by two. Local societies which have increased their membership in the past ten years are the British Association of Chemists, the Institute of Chemistry and the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club; those that have remained at the same strength include the local branch of the Pharma ceutical Society and the Amateur Photographic Association, while those that have declined in membership somewhat include the Liverpool Bo tanical Society, Geological Society, Biological Society, Literary and Philosophical Society, Astronomical Society, Engineering Society, Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Society of Chemical Industry and the New Education Fellowship. The Associated Learned Societies of Liverpool and Dis trict was formed in 1922, though since 1880 there had been a scheme of co-operation between local societies, chiefly for staging annual exhibitions and soirees of their activities. The work of the present association includes holiday prize contests in the local schools, outdoor and indoor joint meetings of an educational nature, periodical public scientific exhibitions, lectures, etc., and various schemes for closer co-operation amongst the various learned societies of the district.