LONGTOWN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



9th session, 1885-86. 



President 



Eev. J. R. Gibson. 



Vice-Presidents. 



R. A. Allison, Esq., M.A., M.P. 

 Rev. P. Caeruthers. 



Treasurer and Secretary 



I. ElGG. 



Wm. Little. 



A. P. WiLKIE. 



Mrs. Mc.Lachlan. 

 Mrs. Morton. 



S. F. McLachlan, Esq., M.B. 

 Wm. Easton Robertson, Esq. 



Wm. Jardine. 



Committee. 



John Wilson. 

 Sub-Committee. 



Miss L. Farries. 



Rev. Wm. Lytteil, 

 a. tweddle. 

 Wm. Kilgour. 



Mrs. Wannop. 

 Miss A. RiGG. 



The following MEETINGS ivere held during the Session: — 

 1885. 

 Nov. 3. — Inaugural Tea Meeting. Rev. J. R. Gibson, (President.) — 



"The Human Mind : Speech.'" 

 Nov. 10. — Eev. Geo. Lambert. — ^" Trinidad — Historical and Descriptive." 

 Nov. 17— Debate: " Should- Education be Free ? " Affir. A. P. Wilkie ; 



Neg. Rev. J. R. Gibson. 

 Nov. 24. — W. Pearson, Esq., London, (late Lecturer Palestine Exploration 



Fund.) — "What the Bible has gained from the recent 



Discoveries in Palestine." 

 Dec. 1.^ — J. H. Park, Esq. — "Credulity and Superstition — what the 



World has Suffered from them. " 

 Dec. 8. — Miss Mary Baskin. — Miscellaneous Poems from English and 



American Authors. 

 Dec. 15. — Eev. J. Phelps. — "Bee-keeping." 

 Dec. 22. — Debate: "Does the Newspaper Press fulfil its proper object ?" 



Affir. Dr. S. F. Mc.Lachlan; Neg. Mr. J. Wilson. 

 Dec. 29. — Mr. J. Wilson. — "Social Forces." 



