Finance. 



6. The early payment op the yearns subscriptions always 

 contributes towards the success op the yearns work ; the 

 Treasurer's Balance Slieet for the year ending 3 1st December, 

 1882, audited as usual by two specially qualified unoflSicial 

 members, shows a balance in hand after the payment of every 

 liability. The amount invested in the New Three per Cent. 

 Annuities is £1,302. 18s. 9d. 



7. The arrears of subscription are now as follows : — 



Members . 

 Associates . 



1 1 1 6 12 11 36 



Meetings. 



Monday, December 4. — " On Assyrian Inscriptions.'' Kev. 0. D. Miller, 



D.D. 

 Monday, January 1. — A Paper on " The Argument from Design in 



Nature, with some Illustrations from Plants," by W. P. James, Esq., 



M.A. 

 Monday, January 15. — Paper by Professor G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., Luca- 



sian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. 

 Monday, February 5. — " Is it possible to know God, being Considera- 

 tions on the Unknown and Unknowable of Modern Thought 1 " by 



the Rev. J. Lias, M.A., late Prof, of Hist, and Mod. Lit. at St. 



David's Coll. 

 Monday, February 19. — A Paper on " Life and its Manifestations in 



Man and in the Lower Animals," by Surg.-Gen. C. Gordon, M.D., 



C.B., Hon. Phys. to the Queen. 

 Monday, March 5. — " On Certain Definitions of Matter." J. E. Howard, 



Esq., F.R.S. 

 Monday, March 19. — " Evolution under Control " (a lecture), by C. 



Smith, Esq., F.G.S. 

 Monday, April 2. — " The Arguments in regard to the Descent of Man." 



Archdeacon Bardsley. 

 Monday, April 16. — "Recent Babylonian Researches," by Hormuzd 



Rassam, Esq. 

 Monday, May 7. — " The Teaching of Science not opposed to the Funda- 

 mental Truths of Revelation," by the Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., 



LL.D., President of Queen's College, Belfast. 

 Monday, May 21.—" The Existence of God." Rev. J. Lias. "Degeneration 



and Evolution," by Hastings C. Dent, Esq., C.E. (Lecture.) 

 Monday, June 25. — Anniversary (at the Society of Arts' House). Special 



Paper by the Right Hon. Lord O'Neill (the late), read by the Right 



Rev. the Lord Bishop of Derry. 



8. The meetings during this session have been held as 



