GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



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MNUflL REPORT BY COMMITTEE OE MflNllGEMENT, 



Read ami adopted at Joint Mcetins; of Proprietors of the Greenock Library 

 and Philosophical Society, held oti 26th December, igo4. 



The annual joint meeeting of the Proprietors of the Greenock 

 Library and Members of the Philosophical Society was held in the 

 Society's Hall yesterday afternoon to receive the report of the 

 Committee of Management of the Museum and Lecture Hall. Mr. 

 A. Campbell Finlay presided, and among those present were Mr. 

 Andrew Carmichael, Mr. T. L. Patterson, Mr. William Cook, Mr. 

 W. Hillhouse Carmichael, Mr. W. Adamson, Mr. J. D. Neill, Mr. 

 George Dunlop (Secretary), Mr. Thomas Thomson (Treasurer). 



The Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Committee of 

 Management was read by Mr. George Dunlop, as follows : — At the 

 Annual Statutory Meeting held in January, Mr. A. Campbell Finlay 

 was elected Chairman, and the only change in the Membership of 

 the Committee was the appointment of Mr. Alexander Shearer in 

 place of Dr. Calder, who had left town. The Committee record 

 with much regret the death during the year of Dr. James Wallace, 

 who acted for a number of years as one of the representatives of the 

 Library Proprietors, and took a great interest in the management of 

 the Museum. The Committee desire to thank all who have con- 

 tributed objects either as gifts or on loan. Among the additions 



