SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OK THE 



§ri:cnock philosophical §ocicta 



Read and Approved at the Meeting of the Society held in the 

 Watt Institution, on 4th March, 1878— John Neill, Junr,, 

 Esq., President, in the Chair. 



I.— STATEMENT OE ACCOUNTS. 

 Dr. 

 Balance from last Session, ------- 



Members' Tickets, 234, al los 6(1, 



I^idies' and Youths' Tickets, 197 at 3s 6d, - - - - 

 Bank Interest, 



Cr. 



Fees and Expends for Lectures, 



Museum Committee, 



Printing and Advertising, - - - - 

 Stationery, Postages, Telegrams, &c.. 

 Officer's Salary, Collecting, and Deliveries, - 

 Sum voted to Purchase Scientific Books, 

 Balance in Bank, 



Greenock, 1st March, 1878. 



DUNCAN M'CALLUM, Hon. Treasurer. 



Examined, compared with Vouchers, and found correct. 



(Signed) A. CAMPBELL FIN LAY, ] AiniTORS 

 „ J. ROBERT BLACK, M.D., i ^'"'^°''^- 



II.— STATEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The Committee have pleasure in being able to report that the large 

 accession to the Menibenship of the Society in 1876-77 has been fully- 

 maintained in the past Session — the number of INIembers at present on 

 the roll being 234, and the number of tickets issued to ladies and youths 

 being 197. The following are the lectures delivered during the Session: — 



Subjects in Science. — " The Telephone^' by Professor Graham 

 Bell; " The Characters of Chemical Attraction," by T. R. Ogilvie, Esq., 

 F.C.S.; " The Polarization of Light," by Wm. Spottiswoode, LL.D., 

 F.R.S.; " The Conduction of Heat," by P. G. Tait, M.A., D.Sc. 



