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MR. A. W. FLUX, M.A., ON CITY GOVERNMENT AND

indebtedness to the help of officials and friends both in Man­ chester and in Copenhagen in obtaining the information in regard to both cities, by supplying me with records in which it was contained. But beyond this I am under further obligation to those in Copenhagen who so kindly attended to my requests for explanation, and thus aided me in avoiding many of the errors into which I might have fallen, if they have not entirely succeeded in preventing me from gathering incorrect impressions. I have already referred to the goodwill shown me wherever I went in Copenhagen, even though I chose to go with my visiting-card as my sole introduction ; no words that I could use liere would sufficiently express my deep sense of that goodwill and of obliga­ tion for the help rendered. Only a lack of space prevents me from using information relating to the large outlying district of Frederiksberg, the separate administration of which brings to notice some features well worthy of attention, were space and time available. A P roposal . At the end of so long a paper, I yet venture to make a further demand on your patience. In his last Annual Report, Dr. Niven says: “ It would be a great advantage to have an accurate knowledge of the density of tenancy for different portions of the city, such as Glasgow possesses.” Here reference is made to one special piece of information of a statistical character whioh it would be desirable to obtain, in order that we may know what is the Manchester in which we live and work. There is a great deal of further information which does already exist, which is at present buried in scattered reports of a more or less inaccessible nature, and more which could be got with little difficulty. I would suggest that this Society might do a useful piece of work if it appointed a committee to collect as exhaustive a set of summarised tables of statistical facts relating to the conditions of Manchester during, say, the last five or ten years of the nineteenth century as could be secured. A statistical year-book might not be desirable, but a periodic