FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Statement of (pioccciinge. 



The Committee have pleasure in submitting the Forty-Eighth 

 Annual Report of the Society. The number of Ordinary Members 

 is 270 and the number of tickets issued for Ladies and Youths 

 amount to 286, an increase of 9 and 4 respectively over the 

 preceding year. These numbers could have been still further 

 increased had tlie accommodation of the Society's Hall permitted, 

 several applications for Membership having been refused. The 

 attendance at the Lectures has been good and has been well 

 maintained to the end of the Session, testifying to the popularity of 

 the Syllabus 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 Sir John Stirling Maxwell for 

 the Opening Lecture and to the Hon. Charles A. Parsons for the 

 Walt Anniversary l,ecture. Dr. Parsons' Lecture will be printed and 

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



The Committee have had under consideration the advisability 

 of changing the hour of meeting to suit the convenience of 

 Lecturers who have to return to (ilasgow, and they reconnnend to 

 this meeting that in future the Chair be taken at eight o'clock. 



The thanks of the Society are due to the Committee of the 

 Museum for the ready manner in which they have met various 

 suggestions of your Committee in regard to matters tending to 

 increase the comfort of the audiences. 



The Committee regret to have to record the death of one of 

 the Honorary Members of the Society, our illustrious townsman 

 Dr. Edward Caird, Master of Balliol. Dr. Caird was elected an 

 Honorary Member in 1865, and the Society have been indebted to 

 him not only for lecturing but for his interest and assistance at 

 various times. 



