16 



1878. 

 23d Oct. 



6th Nov. 



23cl April. 



-Notes on a few of the finds at 

 the Society's Dredging Excur- 

 sions, 



-Some Experiments in Electricity 

 produced by Friction, - 



-Notes on the Insessores, 



-Polarisation of Light (Second 

 Lecture), .... 



-Fermentation and Putrefaction, 



- The Pterygotiis A nglicus, 



-Sculptured Stones of the District 



(Second Lecture), 

 -Notes on Orkney and Shetland, 

 -Thoughts onthe Evolution Theory 



of CrcxUion, - - - - 

 -What is a Volcano? 

 -The Ancient Volcano and 



Geology of Mull, - 

 —On Entomological Classification, 



— The Mechanical Principle of 



Worh, 



—Notes on the Colymhidce and 

 A lea dee, .... 



Wm. B. Irvine. 



Frank W. Young, F.C.S. 



R. N. K£RK. 



John Thomson. 

 F. W. Young. 



Allan Mathewson. 



„ Allan Mathewson. 

 „ Wm. B. Irvine. 



„ The Eev. John Andrew. 

 „ James Durham. 



„ W. Neish Walker. 

 „ Alfred Guthrie. 



„ Robert Chalmers, Jr. 



„ John Nelson. 



A Conversazione was held in the Kinnaird Hall on the evening of 

 February 12th, at which a great many objects of scientific interest, 

 including most of the recent novelties in electrical and acoustical 

 science, were exhibited. The meeting proved a very successful and 

 enjoyable one ; and no doubt a good deal of the success was due to the 

 fact that Professor W. C. Williamson honoured us on the occasion by 

 presiding. 



Your Council are strongly imbued with the idea that one of the 

 chief functions of the Society should be an educational one ; that, 

 by means of lectures or otherwise, it should give, not only to members 

 themselves, but to all outside the Society as well, opportunities of be- 

 coming acquainted with the beautiful truths of Natural Science. 

 Acting upon this idea, your Council determined to arrange with the 

 most eminent scientific teachers they could secure to give a short series 

 of popidar lectures to the public; and on the 11th January they were 

 enabled to intimate to the members by circular that they had arranged 



