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Esq. whose name as an enthusiastic admirer and 

 promoter of art, was known to most of you, and 

 whose paper read during the last Session, had 

 impressed your Council with a high opinion of 

 his talents as a public Lecturer. Mr, Carey 

 immediately accepted the proposal, and in the 

 month of November, delivered a Course of 

 Lectures on " The Fine Arts," which were cha- 

 racterised by an extensive reading, and an 

 intimate acquaintance with art in all its details. 

 Besides this course, which was completed in 

 December, two Courses, the first of four Lectures 

 on the " Laws of Chemical Combination and 

 Analysis," by Mr. E. S. George ; and six on 

 ** The Philosophy of the Intellectual Emotions, 

 and of their corresponding expressions, applied 

 to the examination of xModern Materialism," by 

 the Rev. R. W. Hamilton, were delivered in 

 February and March. 



On these Lectures, delivered by Members 

 of their own body, your Council offer no remarks ; 

 except, that the numerous attendance upon the 

 latter Course, fully evinced the estimation in 

 which they were held, as well by the Society as 

 the town at large. Besides these, a Course of 

 four Lectures "On the Organs of Sensation," 

 forming the sequel of a series of demonstrations 



