In the appended list of Contributors to this Special 

 Fund, will also be found the Names of many early and 

 firm friends to this Institution, who, on numerous occasions, 

 have generously contributed when called upon. 



There are other suggestions in the Report referred to, 

 which the Council would recommend to be taken into 

 consideration by their successors. 



The following Papers have been read at the Ordinary 

 Meetings during the Session. They have generally been 

 well attended, and have been followed by animated dis- 

 cussions : — 



1. Address by the President. Paper "On the Monumental History of 



Egypt""— by Mr. W. Osburn. M.R.S. Lit— (Read Oct 26th, 1849.) 



2. "On the Philosophy of the Choice of Building Stones"— by Mr. E. W. 



Bray ley, of London — (Read Nov. 9th, 1849.) 



3. "On the Relations of Science and Archaeology with Religion" — by the 



Rev. Wm. Sinclair, A.M., PrewWen^— (Read Nov. 23rd, 1849.) 



4. The Conversazione. — (Dec. 7th, 1849.) 



5. "On the Construction of Voltaic Batteries, as applicable for the Produc- 



tion of Electric Light" — by Mr. C. L. Dresser — (Read Dec. 2 1st, 

 1849.) 



6. "On the Philosophy of Shall and W^ill"— by the Rev. Edward Higginson, 



of Wakefield— (Read Jan. 4th, 1850.) 



7. "On some of the British and Mediaeval Antiquities of Cornwall" — by 



Mr. Wm. Boyne, communicated by Mr. Spence, of Devenport — (Read 

 Jan. 18th, 1850.) 



8. "On the Marks of Civilization" — by the Rev. C. F. Weidemann, A.M., 



of Wakefield— (Read Feb. 1st, 1850.) 



9. "On our Estimate of the Iliad in Youth and Maturity" — by the Rev. C. 



Wicksteed, B.A.— (Read Feb. 15th, 1850.) 



10. "On the Second Stage of Mahommcdanism" — by the Rev. Wm. Sinclair, 



