ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 1892. 



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The SIXTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was 

 held in the Class Room, St. Paul's Institute, on Friday, 

 October 21st, 1892. 



The President (Mr. T. Knowles) was in the Chair, and a large 

 number of Members was present. 



The Hon. Secretary read the Report and Balance Sheet for the 

 past year as follows : — 



REPORT OF TFIE COMMITTEE FOR 1891-92. 



In presenting their Report for the i6th Session, the Committee 

 have to chronicle a very uneventful year in the history of the 

 Society, but one during which the steady progress of the past few 

 years has been well maintained. 



The Monthly General Meetings have again been held in the 

 Masonic Hall, and the interest evinced in them by the Members 

 shows no signs of decreasing. Papers were read on each evening 

 by members of the Society, and the average attendance (49"3) is still 

 a very high one. 



The Titles of the Papers read and the Authors were— 



Friday, Oct. 23rd — Annual General Meeting and Exhibition of Lantern Slides by the 

 Photographic Section. * 



Friday, Nov. 20th — President's Inaugural Address — "Studies in English Spelling: its 

 Methods and Delusions." 



Friday, Dec, iSth — "Examples of Mimicry amongst the British Lepidoptera," by 

 Rev. C. F. Thornewill, M.A. 



Friday, Jan. 15th — "The Peasant's Revolt of 1381," by H. Bence, B.A. 



Friday, Feb. 19th — "Some Notes on British Ferns, and their Distribution," by 

 The Right Revd. Bishop Mitchinson, D.C.L., F.L.S., &c. 



Friday, Mar. iSth — "Westminster Abbey and its Monuments," (Part i) by R. Moxon, 



Friday, April Sth — "A Trip to the Minor Colonies of the British Empire," by 

 R. Harrison. 



