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Feb. 3.—J. S. Arnsworts, M.A., LL.B.—-Is Money Wealth? 
Feb. 17.—W. H. Watson, F.C.S., F.M.S.—Water and Air: their Relation 
to Health or Disease. 
Mar. 2.—J. D. Kenpaut, C.E., F.G.S.—The Influence of Geological 
Structure on Scenery. 
Mar. 16.—Rev. J. M. Macmituan, LL. D.—Tennyson’s Poems. 
Mar. 30.-—Rev. J. Hewetson—Thackeray. 
Apl. 13.—CoNnVERSAZIONE. 
Apl. 27.—Business Meeting. 
Our Association has now reached the end of the thirteenth 
year since its inauguration, and the Committee, in presenting the 
annual Report for 1879-80, has to express the satisfaction with 
which it reviews the work achieved within the past winter. 
The Session was opened by a public Conversazione held in 
the Town Hall, which was elaborately decorated for the occasion, 
with works of art, mottoes, and evergreens. The decorations 
contributed in an evident degree to the enjoyment of the evening. 
The President’s address was devoted to a special phase of scientific 
thought, in the form of an able veswmé of Dalton’s Atomic Theory, 
illustrated during the evening by a series of beautiful experiments 
on radiant matter, conducted by the lecturer, who used for that 
purpose, the celebrated vacuum tubes recently invented by Dr. 
Crookes. 
Exclusive of the opening address, there have been delivered 
at the Ordinary Meetings, four lectures on scientific subjects, four 
on literary subjects, two on the application of scientific data to the 
actual wants of social life, one on political economy, and one on 
the theory of government. 
From this brief analysis, it will be seen that Science and 
Literature are not studied altogether apart from the real and 
inseparable bearing which, rightly regarded, they must be acknow- 
ledged to have over the practical interests of the community. In 
fact, the raison d’etre of public institutions such as ours, is not 
properly comprehended, if their promoters do not constantly strive 
to attain the practical. 
The attendance upon the lectures has been very encouraging, 
and several of them were delivered to large audiences. 
To those gentlemen who have so generously placed at the 
service of the Association their time and energy, in the preparation 
and delivery of these lectures, the Committee begs to tender its 
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