ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 1887. 



The Elevknth Annual General Meeting was held in the 

 Rooms of the School of Science, at the Institute, Union Street, on 

 Friday, March 25th, 1887. 



The President — Mr. J. T. Harris — took the Chair, with a good 

 attendance of the more active members of the Society. 



■J'he following Report of the Committee was read by the Honorary 

 Secretary, Mr. F. E. Lott. 



The Committee regret to have to draw the attention of members to the 

 fact that, although the removal of the Society's meetings to the School 

 of Science has been accompanied by a slight improvement in the average 

 attendance of members at the meetings, it has not been sufficient to lead 

 the Committee to invite gentlemen to read Papers before the Society as 

 frequently as they could wish. 



Four General Meetings have been held, and the average attendance 

 (17) is an advance on that of last year; the absence, however, of any 

 Sectional Papers reduces the value of this improvement. 



Only two Papers were read: — 



1886 — Nov. 3rcl^"The Dawn of Life" by Egbert de Hamel, Esq. - 10 present. 



■ cc v^\ .AtK S "-^ Night among our Old Abbeys and Churches / , 

 i887-Feb. i6th | ,^y g^^^^^ ^ight," by A. Scrivener, Esq. 1 5° Present. 



The other two meetings were of an informal character, and only 

 attended by a few members. 



Such being the condition of our Meetings, we recommend that this 

 year a programme be arranged at the commencement of the Winter 

 Session, that Meetings be held once a month, and that some two or three 

 short Papers be read at each Meeting. Members of neighbouring 

 Societies being invited to read Papers as heretofore. 



Your Committee, considering that the Society was not supported by 

 .sufficient members to make the Sectional arrangements, as conducted 

 last Winter, a success, passed a resolution to the effect "that the present 

 Sections be dissolved, and that, in future, no Section be formed unless a 



