GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



National Telephone Company. This is not the first time the 

 Messrs. Hastie have laid the Society under obligation by supplying 

 power for a similar purpose. Thanks are also due to the Managers 

 of Union Street United Presbyterian Church and Messrs. Mac- 

 Symon & Company, for permitting the wires to be attached to the 

 roofs of their buildings ; and to the National Telephone Company 

 for the efficient manner in which the cables were fitted up. 



For the Watt Anniversary Lecture the Committee were 

 fortunate in securing Professor Archibald Barr, D.Sc, of Glasgow 

 University, to whom the warmest acknowledgments are due for his 

 exceedingly interesting and instructive lecture on the " Forth Bridge." 

 The successive stages in the construction of this, the greatest 

 engineering work of the age, were well illustrated by numerous 

 lantern slides. 



During this Session, as on many previous occasions, Mr. 

 Andrew Kerr and Mr. T. L. Patterson have very kindly given their 

 services and lanterns, where lime-light illustrations were required. 



A general desire having been expressed that the Gilchrist 

 Educational Trust should be approached for another course of 

 Science Lectures for the people, the Committee are glad to report 

 that an application sent in early in the Session was favourably 

 entertained, and a course of six lectures granted, the dates fixed 

 being January 13, 17 ; February 10, 24; and March 10 and 24 — the 

 lecturers being Sir Robert S. Ball, LI^.D., F.R.S. ; Professor 

 M'Intosh, M.D., F.R.S. ; Mr. A. P. Laurie, M.A., F.R.S.E.; Rev. 

 Dr. Dallinger, F.R.S.; Dr. Drink water, F.C.S.; and Dr. Andrew 

 Wilson, F.R.S.E. With a view to the successful carrying out of 

 these %ctures a special sub-committee was apj^ointed, with the 

 President, Mr. Louson Walker, as chairman ; Mr. Robert Hamilton 

 as treasurer, and Mr. George Murray as local secretary. This 

 Committee, as was done on the former occasion, secured the 

 co-operation of the Directors of the Mechanics' Institution, and of 

 representative men connected with the various public works in town. 

 Four of the Lectures have already been delivered in the Town Hall, 

 and the magnificent audiences — close on 3,000 — which have 

 attended, show the success with which the Special Committee have 

 done their work. The full report by this Committee will be 

 submitted on the completion of the course. 



