During tlie Session three Courses of Lectures have 

 been delivered. The first a Course of Nine Lectures 

 by Mr. Nunneley, Hon. Secretary, ** On the Anatomy 

 and Physiology of the Organs of Digestion, Circulation, 

 and Respiration." The second a Course of Four Lec- 

 tures, by Professor Kidd, " On China." The third a 

 Course of Six Lectures, by Mr. Sheridan Knowles, 

 " On Dramatic Literature." 



The attendance at these, particularly at the first 

 and third Courses, has been good. Mr. Nunneley 

 liberally declined to accept any compensation for his 

 Lectures. The Council feel it to be both a debt of 

 gratitude and an act of mere justice to that Gentleman 

 to record their sense of the obligation he has thus con- 

 ferred upon the Society, and of the talents and research 

 evinced in the whole course of his Ijcctures, which were 

 attended by large audiences, and listened to with great 

 and constantly increasing interest till their close. 



It will be seen that the amount received for ad- 

 mission to the Lectures is comparatively small. This is 

 explained by the fact of the terms of membership and 

 subscribership being so liberal as to render it more ad- 

 vantageous to join the Society than pay for admission 

 to a single course of Lectures. This is what the Council 

 would wish, desiring rather to attract persons perma- 

 nently to the Society than to obtain an uncertain and 



