GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



(F^por( on Couree of ^om6e BcctxxvcB 



DELIVERED AT GREENOCK BY 



®t. ilnbirew (2»tf0on, 5.(K.^.6., ^c, 1893. 



The Committee of the Philosophical Society and the General 

 Committee called together by that Society from all classes of the 

 community have the honour to report that a course of eight lectures 

 on Physiology, generously granted by the Combe Trustees, was 

 given in the Greenock Town Hall on the evenings of 5th, 12th, 

 19th, and 26th October, and 2nd, 9th, 23rd, and 30th November, 

 1893. 



The attendances were — at the first lecture, 3,008 ; at the second, 

 3,100; but, as complaints were made of overcrowding, it was 

 thought desirable to suspend entirely admission by payment at the 

 doors, and the attendance at the succeeding six lectures was there- 

 fore limited to the number of course tickets sold, viz., 2,758. 



The prices charged were, for the course tickets, 2s. 6d. for the 

 boxes, and 6d. for all other parts of the house. 



The takings from all sources were ^107 6s. 46., and the 

 expenses ^63 los. 2d., leaving a net surplus of ;^43 i6s. 2d., 

 which, with the approval of the Combe Trustees, the Committees 

 propose to devote in part to the purchase of prizes to be awarded to 

 those who pass the examination referred to later in this' report, and 

 the balance in aid of Science Lectures for the people, and for similar 

 purposes promoted by the Philosophical Society. 



As, on account of the great popularity of these lectures, many 

 persons took their seats an hour, or even two, before that fixed for 

 the lecture, the Committees arranged for the use of the organ each 

 evening to beguile the tedium of waiting. 



