GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Following up the recommendation embodied in the last Annual 

 Report the Committee approached Captain Noble, C.B., with the 

 view of obtaining his approval of the proposal to print and circulate 

 his able lecture on " Internal Ballistics." Captain Noble not only 

 acquiesced in the proposal, but was kind enough to present the Society 

 with 190 copies for distribution among the Members, for which the 

 most cordial acknowledgments of the Society are due to him. 



To Sir Thomas Sutherland and Mr. Thomas Prentice special 

 thanks are due for the very able and interesting lectures which they 

 delivered, and the Committee desires to record the indebtedness of 

 the Society to Mr. G. G. Napier, who not only delivered his lecture 

 on the " Homes and Haunts of Tennyson " free of charge, but also 

 bore, in great part, the expenses of the limelight and vocal illustrations 

 with which it was accompanied. 



As agreed to at the opening meeting of the Session, Sir Thomas 

 Sutherland's lecture on "New and Old Ways to the Far East" has 

 been printed and circulated among the Members. 



Owing to the frequent use which is now being made of limelight 

 illustrations in our lectures, the Committee resolved to purchase for 

 the use of the Society an oxyhydrogen lantern, and accordingly voted 

 the sum of p^2o or thereby for this purpose. 



During the first half cf the Session Mr. Andrew Kerr and Mr. T. 

 L. Patterson again kindly lent their lanterns and services to the 

 Society in illustrating several of the lectures. For these and for the 

 assistance rendered by these gentlemen in the purchase of the new 

 lantern the Society is under obligation to them ; and the Committee 

 again desires to place on record its sense of indebtedness to them for 

 the many services they have in past years rendered to the Society in 

 this connection. 



An afternoon course of University Extension Lectures was this 

 Session delivered to a class of loi students. The course consisted 

 of six lectures on "The Age of the French Revolution," delivered by 

 the Rev. James Mackinnon, M.A., Ph. D. (Heidelberg), Lecturer on 

 History in the Glasgow Athenasum. 



After paying all expenses a balance of _£;^ 5s. remained on hand 

 from this course, which sum has been added to the balance from the 



