n.-Statement of iproceeMn(3s. 



In submitting the Twenty-second Annual Report, your Committee 

 regret to be again compelled to report that both Members' and Ladies' 

 tickets show a falling off as compared with the Twenty-first year of the 

 Society. The number of Members on the Roll this year is 187, against 

 198 last year ; and ladies tickets 203 this year, against 216 last year. 

 The Members can however still be congratulated on the state of the funds, 

 as, owing to careful management, there is still a balance in hand of 

 £35 6s 9d- 



The foUoAv^ng is a list of the lectures delivered during the Session : — 



Subjects in Science. — "■ Atithropology,'' by the Rev. Henry Calderwood, 

 LL.D., The University, Edinburgh. ''The Mechanism of Sensation" by Dr J. 

 M'Gregor Robertson, M.A., The University, Glasgow. " Colour and Colour 

 Fi"-ments,'^ by P. B. Watt, Esq., Glasgow. " Technical Education in Naval 

 Architecture," by Wm. John, Esq., F. R.S.N. A., Barrow. 



In Belles Lettres. — Four Lectures, Subjects, "Socrates and the Sophists of 

 Greece,"" " Shakespeare as a Dramatist and as Moral Teacher," Spinoza : the Man and 

 his System," " Broit'ning : his Poetry and Philosophy," by Professor Knight, L.L.D., 

 St. Andrews. " The Influence of Nationality on Art," by W. D. Mackay, Esq., 

 A.R.S.A., Edinburgh. "Rousseau," by Thomas Raleigh, Esq., Lincoln's Inn, 

 London. " Z'<7zvV/ ////wf," by Principal Caird, the University, Glasgow. A Lecture 

 on "Lake D-wellings, with special reference to recent discoveries in Ayrshire,'''' was 

 delivered by R. Munro, Esq., M.D., M.A., F.S.A., Scott., Kilmarnock. A Lecture 

 on the Tonic Sol-fa System was also given by J. Spencer Curwen, Esq., London, 

 illustrated by a Choir from the Greenock (Burgh) School Board Schools, under Mr J. 

 Henderson. 



In addition to these a Quartette Concert was given, the executants 

 being Members of the Orchestra of the Glasgow Orchestral Concerts. 

 The special thanks of the Members are due to Mr John, Dr Munro, 

 Principal Caird, Mr Curwen, Mr Watt, and Mr M'Kay, all of whom, in 

 the most liberal manner, gave their services gratuitously. The Watt 

 Lecture, delivered by Mr John, was a most interesting and valuable one, 

 and the hearty thanks of the Society are due to him for it. In accord- 

 ance with a remit made to a small Committee, the " Synopsis of the 

 Proceedings of the Society," from 1861 to 1 881, has now been completed, 

 * printed, and issued to the Members, and will doubtless be found not 

 only interesting to Members, but useful to the Officials in future years. 

 The Society is much indebted to the Sub-Committee for the accurate way 

 in which the work has been carried out, but especially to Mr M'Dougall 

 and Mr Love, on the latter of whom the largest part of the labour fell. 



