It is now two years since your Council reported having made their 

 first effort to obtain the benefits of the Gilchrist Trust in aid of a course 

 of popular lectures on various branches of Natural Science, and last 

 year a renewal of the application to the Trustees was strongly urged. 

 This matter was early considered by your present Council, who agreed 

 to again ask the Natural Science Societies in Perth, Brechin, Montrose, 

 and Kirkcaldy, to make a conjoint and strong representation to the 

 Trustees through Dr Carpenter, the Secretary of the Trust, for a course 

 of Gilchrist Lectures in Dundee and these other towns. It is hardly 

 now necessary to state that a very favourable reply was received to this 

 second application, your Council being soon after deputed to make 

 arrangements with the Societies or Committees in all the above-named 

 towns for the delivery of a Course of Lectures as under : — 



Professor Ball, LL.D., F.E.S., Astronomer Eoyal for Ireland, 



The Telescope and its uses. 



Wm. Lant Carpenter, Esq., B.A., B.Sc, F.C.S., 



Electrical Storage of Energy, Illustrated with Experiments. 



Wm. Lant Carpenter, Esq., B.A., B.Sc., E.C.S., 



Transmission of Power by Electricity, Illustrated with Experiments. 



Dr Andrew Wilson, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 



Corals and Coral Islands. 



Dr James Gkikie, r.R.S., F.R.S.E., F.G.S., &c., of H.M. Geological Survey. 



The Ice Age in Scotland. 



The Rev. W. H. Dallinger. F.R.S., &c., Professor of Natural Science, and 



Governor of Wesley College, Sheffield, 



An Hour with the Microscope, 



With special reference to the least and lowest forms of life. 



In Dundee the Lectures were delivered in the Kinnaird Hall, which 

 was crowded every evening with intelligent and appreciative audiences. 

 In every respect the course may be considered a complete success, and 

 it is gratifying to note that not only was this the case in Dundee, but 

 in Perth, Brechin, Montrose, and Kirkcaldy also — one remarkable 

 feature in the audiences, noticed by the Lecturers as well as by your 

 Council, being the great preponderance of our working classes, for 

 whom the Lectures were mainly instituted. 



Your Council have already taken occasion to record and transmit an 

 expression of their great indebtedness to the Gilchrist Trustees, for their 

 goodness in providing eminent scientific men to deliver so interesting 

 and varied a course. To Dr W. B. Carpenter, C.B.,F.E.S., your Council 

 feel more especially indebted, for much kindness and courtesy while 

 carrying out, along with him, all the arrangements. 



The labours necessarily involved in this matter, and in consideration 

 of the fact that the Art Exhibition in the Albert Institute was open 

 during the winter months of this year, and that in connection with it 



