GREENOCK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



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ANNUAL REPORT BY COMMITTEE OF MflNllGEMENT. 



AVrtfl' iifiii adopted at Joint Meeting of Proprietors of the Greenock Library 

 and Philosophical Society held on 28th December, igo8. 



The following is the Thirty-first Annual Report on the Museum 

 and Lecture Hall, which the Committee of Management have 

 pleasure in laying before their constituents. 



At last Annual Meeting two new Members were elected to 

 represent the Library, vizt : — the Rev. J. J. Macaulay and Mr. 

 William Walt, these taking the place of Mr. James D. Neill and 

 Mr. T. D. M'Murrich. Otherwise the constitution of the Com- 

 mittee remained unchanged. 



The Chairman for the year fell to be chosen from the 

 representatives of the Philosophical Society, and at the Statutory 

 Meeting held in the beginning of the year Mr. R. A. Clapperton 

 was elected Chairman. 



A detailed list of the additions made to the Museum during 

 the year will be found in the Curator's Report, and the Committee 

 desire to thank those who from time to time have sent objects or 

 specimens as additions to the various collections. 



Mr. Edward S. Russell has just completed the Zoological Type 

 Collection on which he has been at work for the last two or three 



