EEPOBT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAR 1887. 



The Council beg leave to present a Report of the Proceedings 

 ■of the Association during its Ninth year. 



The financial condition of the Association is satisfactory, as 

 shown by the Treasurer's Account, which has been duly audited. 



Lectures have been delivered by Mr. Alfred Harding, on 

 •*' Sound Waves;" Dr. Percy Frankland, on "Micro-organisms;" 

 Professor Howes, on " Eyes, — Ancient, Modern, and Indifferent ; " 

 Mr. F. W. Eudler, on "Earthquakes and Volcanoes;" Mr, Carl 

 Ambruster, on "The Musical Dramas of Richard Wagner;" 

 Professor J. Millar Thomson, on "Photography;" and Mr. E. W. 

 Brabrook, on " Human Measurement." Though the Lectures have 

 in themselves been certainly equal to those delivered in previous 

 years, the attendance has been far from satisfactory, and, in 

 consequence, the earnest attention of the President and Council 

 has been given to the measures that should be taken to increase 

 the interest shown by the Members in the proceedings of the 

 Association. 



The President, in an Address delivered on February 1st, 

 referred to this matter, and pointed out at some length the 

 important services the Association might render by acting as 

 the focus from which scientific knowledge of value to the com- 

 munity at large could be spread in our district : this is so obvious 

 that the failure of the Members to duly support the efforts of the 

 Executive can only have arisen from the circumstance that they 

 have not yet realised how much the success of the Association 

 depends on their regular attendance. The Council would also 

 direct the attention of Members to the importance of securing 

 new INIembers, and especially of interesting young people in the 

 work of the Association, and of leading them to see that their 

 active co-operation would soon secure for it a position of influence 



