FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Statement of (procecdtnge. 



The Committee have pleasure in submitting the Forty-Ninth 

 Annual Report of the Society. The number of Ordinary Members 

 is 286, and the number of tickets issued for Ladies and Youths 

 amounts to 293, an increase of 16 and 7 respectively over the 

 preceding year, and the largest number ever issued in the history of 

 the Society. The weekly meetings were all well attended, and the 

 general interest taken in the Lectures testifies to their popularity 

 and their need in the social life of the town. The Programme, as 

 originally arranged, has this Session been carried out without 

 alteration. The thanks of the Society are due to Dr. Robert Caird 

 for the Watt Anniversary Lecture and to Sheriff Kennedy for his 

 Lecture on " Plato as a Legislator." Dr. Caird's Lecture will be 

 printed and issued in due course as one of the papers of the 

 Society. 



The thanks of the Committee are again due to the Committee 

 of the Museum for further improvements in connection with the 

 Hall, especially in regard to the lighting, tending to increase the 

 comfort of the audiences and adding to the convenience of the 

 Lecturers. Details of these, and of changes still to be carried 

 through, will be found in the Report of the Museum Committee, 

 which will be circulated with this Report. 



The Syllabus was as follows : — 



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Oct. 29 — ^'' Italian Art, from the ijth to i6th Century" "With Lantern 

 Illustrations. By Rev. John D. Sinclair, B.D., Cluny. 



Nov. 5 — " The Spider as an Engineer." With Lantern Illustrations. 

 By Fred W. Saxby. 



„ 12— Dramatic Recital. By Miss Ellen Bowick. 



„ 19 — '■^ Parliament from the Press Gallery!" By Spencer Leigh 

 HUGHE.S (" Sub Rosa " of the Morni?ig Leader.) 



