17th Dec. 



1880. 

 14th Jan. 



— A Chapter on Heat. Illustrated 

 by Experiments, • 



— The Faroe Islands, ■ 



4th Feb. — Zermalt and Us Environs. Il- 

 lustrated with Views and 

 Photographic Transparencies, 



11th Feb. — Some Cycles of Chemical Opera- 

 tions in Nature. With Experi- 

 ments, 



25th Feb. — Evolution and the Geolorjical 

 Record. With Diagrams and 

 Lime Light Illustrations, 



10th March. — Evolution Past and Present, 



24th March. — Some Principles of Evolution, 



7tli April. — The Religion and Romance of 

 Science, .... 



21st April. — The Organisation of Scientific 

 Instruction in our Large 

 Toivns, .... 



John Thomson. 



James Geikte, LL.D., F.R.S. 



&c. 



JAME.S BrEBNER, M.A. 



F. W. YouxG, F.C.S. 



Jame.s Durham, F.G.S. 

 W. Neish Walker, F.G.S. 

 David Cunningham, M. Inst. 

 C.E. 



Rev. HuoH George Watt, 

 M.A., B.D. 



John B. Charles, M.A. 

 A very important feature of these lectures and papers should not be 

 overlooked here, nor want our best thanks — the time and trouble 

 ■which is evidently taken in the preparation of experiments, diagrams, 

 and lime light transparencies for the better elucidation of, and certainly 

 adding greater interest to, the various subjects. The attendance of 

 members and friends throughout has been on the whole good, but it 

 is to be hoped that the number of those who take advantage of the 

 meetings will rather tend to increase, and so encourage those who take 

 the great trouble of bringing matters of interest before the Society. 

 Many of the papers were of great practical value, and your Council 

 feel that the time has now arrived for consideration whether these com- 

 munications, or at least abstracts of them, should not be published in 

 the form of a Journal or Transactions of our Society. 



A .short course of popular lectures was delivered in the Kinnaird 

 Hall, under the auspices of the Society, as under : — 

 1880. 

 3d Feb. — Professor W. C. Williamson, F.R.S , &c., Owen's College, Man- 

 chester, on "Insect-Eating Plants." 

 18th Feb. — James Geikie, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., &c., of H.M. Geological 

 Survey, on "The Geological History of the Tay Valley." 

 3d Mar. — G. J. Romanes, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., on "The Begmning of 

 Nerves in the Animal Kingdom." 



