GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



believe that their action has met with the approval of the Members. 

 Fortunately all the Lecturers whose names appeared on the 

 programme were able to fulfil their engagements. 



For the opening Lecture the Committee were fortunate in 

 securing the services of the Very Reverend Principal Caird, Glasgow, 

 to whom the warmest acknowledgments of the Society are due for his 

 able Lecture on " Public Speaking." 



The Committee desire also to record their indebtedness to 

 Mr. J. W. Gilmer and Mr. W. Scott Morton for the Lectures which 

 they kindly delivered. 



The Watt Anniversary Lecture delivered by Sir Frederick 

 Bramwell last Session has been printed and circulated among the 

 Members. 



The Watt Lecture this year was kindly undertaken by Mr. R. E. 

 Froude, who took as his subject, "Ship Resistance," which he 

 illustrated by models and a number of diagrams shown by the oxy- 

 hydrogen lantern. The best thanks of the Society are due to Mr. 

 Froude for his Lecture. The Committee have resolved that the 

 Lecture should be printed as one of the papers of the Society, and 

 this is now being done under the supervision of Mr. F. P. Purvis. 



Before the beginning of the Session, intimation was received from 

 the Combe Trustees that they had granted a Course of Health 

 Lectures to Greenock, to be delivered by Dr. Andrew Wilson, 

 F'.R.S.E., &c., in the months of October and November. A special 

 Committee was, as in the case of the Gilchrist Lectures, appointed 

 to take charge of this course, and a copy of that Committee's report 

 is appended, from which it will be seen that the course was a very 

 successful one. On submitting the Report to the Combe Trustees, 

 intimation was received from them that they would provide volumes 

 to be distributed among the successful competitors in the Examination 

 which was held on the subjects treated of by Dr. Wilson in these 

 Lectures. A very handsome gift of the Combe Trust publications 

 has since been received, and the prizes have now been distributed 

 among the successful competitors. For these prizes the Committee 

 desire to express their indebtedness to the Combe Trust. 



At the commencement of the Session it was found, after inquiry, 

 that a course of afternoon lectures would not probably meet with 



