FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



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The Committee have pleasure in submitting tlie Forty-Seventh 

 Annual Report of the Society. 



The Membership of the Society and llie issue of special tickets 

 for use in Members' households have again been restricted solely by 

 the size of the Lecture Hall, several applications having been 

 refused. The number of ordinary Members is 261, and the number 

 of tickets issued for Ladies and Youths amounts to 282. Through- 

 out the Session the attendance at the Lectures has been good, 

 testifying to the popularity of the meetings and the interest taken in 

 the work of the Society. 



The Programme as originally arranged has been carried out in 

 its entirety. The thanks of the Society are due to Dr. George 

 Neilson for the Opening Lecture, to Mr. F. C. Macdonald for his 

 lecture on Burma, and to Mr. Frederick Soddy for the Watt 

 Anniversary Lecture. Mr. Soddy's lecture will be printed and 

 issued in due course as one of the papers of the Society. 



On the occasion of the Watt Lecture, Dr. Robert Caird 

 referred in appropriate terms to the death of Lord Kelvin and 

 proposed that there be engrossed in the Society's Minute Book a 

 resolution e.xpressing the sense of the irreparable loss the world has 

 sustained in the death of Lord Kelvin, the gratitude and pride with 

 which the Members recall his association with this Society, and 

 their sympathy with Lady Kelvin and the relatives in their 

 bereavement. 



