numbers. The best thanks of tlxe Society are due tu all those gentle- 

 men who have so kindly contributed to the instruction of their fellow- 

 members ; and wa are especially indebted to Professor Nicholson, Dr 

 Geikie, and the Eev. Mr Herduian, for their lectures, entailing, as they 

 did, much trouble and personal inconvenience to the lecturers. 



Stimulated by the success which attended the Exhibition in the 

 Kiunaird Hall in January last year, and having in mind the fact that it 

 had to be closed when at the very height of its popularity, your 

 Council, almost immediately on entering on their duties, determined to 

 repeat the experiment on a larger scale than before ; and, in order that 

 the whole Dundee public might have an opportunity of seeing it, to 

 keep it open a week longer than was done last year. Assisted by 

 several able members, your Council entered heartily on the work of 

 l)reparation, leaving no stone unturned to make the Exhibition as com- 

 plete and attractive as possible. The result of their labours was seen 

 by the members on Wednesday, the 31st of January this year, when 

 the Exhibition was opened by Provost Eobertson at the Members' 

 Conversazione. Of the Conversazione it need only be said here that 

 it passed off with perfect smoothness, and it seemed to be the 

 unanimous opinion that it surpassed all those that had preceded it in 

 pleasant attractiveness. On the evening of 1st February the Exhibition 

 was opened to the public, and continued open nightl^^ up to and includ- 

 ing Saturday the 9th February, During that time it was visited by 

 several thousands — many coming over and over again. As an Exhibition 

 it must be admitted an entire success. Nothing like it had ever been 

 seen in Dundee before. As a means of educating, its value must be put 

 very high, for visitors had there the opportunity of seeing, and hearing 

 explained by competent specialists, objects and phenomena, from which, 

 at ordinary times, they are quite shut out, thus having their ideas 

 enlarged and their minds stored with useful information. But it is 

 needless to dilate here on this head. Every member had the oppor- 

 tunity, and no doubt availed himself of it, of forming his own judgment 

 of the value of the Exhibition. Only one opinion has reached your 

 Council, and that is, that it was an entire success. Such a result, it 

 must be evident, could only be attained by a great deal of labour on 

 the part of those actively engaged in the preparations, and where so 

 many did well it might be invidious to mention any names. But there 

 is one name we cannot pass over without mention, namely, that of Mr 

 A. C. Lamb. This gentleman took a pre-eminent position among those 

 wliose work it was to organise the Exhibition ; he threw his whole 



