FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT. 



numbers. The lecturer, Mons. Charles Martin, of the University 

 of Glasgow, is dealing in an able and instructive manner with an 

 extensive range of subjects bearing on the literature of France, and 

 has maintained to now the interest of an enthusiastic body of 

 students. Otherwise no special lecture course was undertaken 

 during the session. 



The balance at credit of the Science Lecture Fund is now 

 ;^48 7S. 8d. 



Your Committee regret to record the loss which the Society 

 has sustained in the past session through death. Provost Black, 

 an old Member of the Society ; his son, Dr. J. R. Black, a past 

 President; and Dr. W. J. Marshall, a past President and a valued 

 Honorary Member, have all died since last Annual Meeting. All 

 of these took an active interest in the affairs of the Society, and 

 your Committee would put on record their appreciation of the 

 valuable services rendered by them in the past. 



Your Committee also regret the removal from town of Dr. Hugh 

 Macmillan, a Member whose valuable literary services and influence 

 were for long unsparingly given in the interests of the Society. 

 Your Committee recommend that Mr. F. P. Purvis, an Ex-President 

 of the Society, and now Professor of Naval Architecture in the 

 University of Tokio, Japan, be elected an Honorary Member of 

 the Society. 



At a joint meeting of the Members of the Society and the 

 Proprietors of the Greenock Library, held on 30th December last, 

 the Annual Report of the Committee of the M'Lean Museum and 

 Hall was submitted and adopted. 



Mr. George Dunlop, B.L., was re-elected one of the Society's 

 representatives, and the other vacancy was filled by the appoint- 

 ment of Mr. Thomas Thomson in room of Mr. Robert Hamilton, 

 retired. 



The following publications have been received during the 



past year : — 



The Transactions of the Canadian Institute. 



The Proceedings ot the Glasgow Philosophical Society, and 



The Management of Engineering Workshops, from the Institu- 

 tion of Junior Engineers. 



