GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



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The Committee has pleasure in submitting to the Members the 

 following Report on the 36th Session of the Society. 



For the Session, 238 Members' tickets were taken up — that 

 number being the highest recorded since the commencement of the 

 Society in 1861. The Ladies' and Youths' tickets sold numbered 

 260, an increase of 3 on those of the preceding Session ; and the 

 total tickets sold were 498, as against 492 last year. 



With the exception of Mr. W. H. Preece, who delivered the 

 Watt Lecture, all the Lecturers of the Session were paid for their 

 services, and ah unusual drain was, in consequence, made upon the 

 funds of the Society, with the result that the balance on hand at the 

 close of the Session was ^83 4s. 8d., as compared with ^102 17s. 

 last year ; but the Committee feels that the heavy expenditure has 

 been amply compensated by the eminence of the Lecturers secured, 

 and the general excellence of the lectures delivered. 



The following lectures were delivered during the Session : — 



1896. 



Oct. 30. — " T/te New Photography.^^ Illustrated by Experiments and 

 Lime-Light Views. By J. A. Fleming, Esq., M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineering in the University 

 College, London. 



Nov. 6. — " Twenty Thousand Feet above the Sea." Illustrated by Lime-' 

 Light Views. By Edward Whvmper, Esq., London, 

 Fellow and Patron's Medallist of the Royal Geographical 

 Society. 



„ 13. — '■'■ Home, Sweet Home" — a Lecture-story. By Hai.i. Cain'k, 

 Esq. Author of " The Manxman," &c., (Sic. 



„ 20. — " Music, the Art of the Age." With Violin Experiments. By 

 the Rev. H. R. Haweis, M.A., Incumbent of St. James's, 

 Marylebone, London. 



,, 27. — "'Sketches of the Antiquities and Scenery of Bosnia- Herze- 

 govina." With Lime-Light Illustrations. By Robert 

 MUNRO, Esq., M.D., M.A., Edinburgh, Secretary of the 

 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 



