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Thirty-five members participated in this excursion, and many 

 secured valuable specimens of the fresh water sponges, shells and 

 alg^. . ■ 



The programme of lectures for the coming year is given 

 below. 



PROGRAMME FOR 1887-88. 



18S7. — Preliminary Meeting, September loth. Excursion, 

 September 17. Competitive Exhibitions of Collections made by 

 Members and Asvarding Prizes, September 24th. Course in 

 Physics and Chemistry. — Lectures by Dr. W. S. Christopher and 

 H. P. Smith, October ist to December 17th. 



1888. — Course in Human and Comparative Anatomy. — 

 Lectures by Dr. John Wiggins, January 7th to February nth. 

 Course in Physiology and Hygiene. — Lectures by Dr. B. M. 

 Ricketts, February i8th to March 24th. Course in Microscopy. — 

 Lectures by Dr. Chas. E. Caldwell, March 31st to May 5th. 

 Course in Zoology. — Lectures by Mr. Wm. Hubbell Fisher and 

 Mr. Chas. Dury, May 19th to June 23d. Excursion, May 12th. 



Dr. W. S. Christopher, Dr. John Wiggins, Dr. B. M. 

 Ricketts, Dr. Chas. E. Caldwell, Mr. Wm. Hubbell Fisher and 

 Mr. Chas. Dury have generously given their services in the 

 Lyceum work, and it is due to them that we are enabled to begin 

 the year with such fair promises of success. 



Though the number of members enrolled this year is not so 

 large as last, the active membership is larger and represents a 

 higher grade of scholarship. 



It is not pretended to go over a great range in any of the 

 subjects to be treated during the year, but to present the funda- 

 mental truths of these sciences in such a manner as to interest 

 and instruct, and above all to encourage and aid in individual 

 work by members. 



Last, but not least, among the objects we hope to attain 

 through the Lyceum, is the benefit of the Society by bringing it 

 and its work more directly to the notice of the public and espe- 

 cially to the notice of the friends of scientific education, and I 

 feel confident that many valuable friends have already been 

 secured through its agency. 



In promoting this object, the members of the Lyceum are not 

 asked to become agents of the society in any respect whatever. 

 But it is hoped to make the strongest appeal in the character and 



