THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 



similar course held last Session. The sum in the hands of the 

 Treasurer on account of the afternoon Lectures now amounts, with 

 interest, to ^8 os. id. 



Another course of University Extension Lectures was deli\cred 

 on Wednesday evenings to a class composed chiefly of artizans. 

 This course consisted of six lectures on "Electricity," delivered by 

 Mr. Angus AI'Lean, B.Sc, C.E., assistant to the Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical 

 College. For this course 558 tickets were sold, but as, in order to 

 bring the Lectures within the reach of all who might wish to attend, 

 the price of the ticket had been fixed at 6d., the receipts were less 

 than the expenditure by the sum of ^1^13 13s. id., which deficit was 

 defrayed out of the Gilchrist Lecture Fund. This fund, after paying 

 that balance, amounts, with interest, to ^^46 12s. 8d. 



A number of the students attending the evening class having, at 

 the close of the course, expressed a desire that a continuation course 

 of other six more advanced lectures should be delivered, the 

 Committe thought the present a good opportunity of encouraging the 

 students, and accordingly arranged for the delivery by Mr. M'Lean of 

 another course of six lectures. Five of the lectures of this second 

 course have now been delivered, and the audiences have been large 

 and appreciative throughout. On this course, also, there will be a 

 deficit, which will be defrayed out of the Gilchrist Lecture Fund. 

 The Committee is gratified that these lectures have been so much 

 appreciated, and that the efforts of the Society to stimulate these 

 courses of systematic study have been so well received. 



The Committe has made an application to the Combe Trust, 

 Edinburgh, for a grant to Greenock of a course of Combe Lectures 

 by Dr. Andrew Wilson, to be delivered next winter. No reply has as 

 yet been received to the application, but the Committee is hopeful 

 that a grant will be received, in which case the Lectures will be 

 delivered in the Town Hall. 



At the meeting held on 26th December, 1892, in terms of the 

 Constitution of the Society, the Annual Report of the Committee of 

 the Museum and Hall, of which a summary is appended, was 

 submitted. The vacancies occurring in the Society's representatives 

 in the Museum Committee were filled up by the re-election of Mr. 

 T. L. Paterson and the election of Mr. H. D. Lusk. 



