BURNLEY LITERARY AND 



Philosophical Society. 



THIRD ANNUAL, MEETING. 



Ua Wedoesday night the annual meeting of the 

 members was held in the Society's room, Mr. W. 

 Smithson in the chair. 



THb yearly report read by tihe eeneral secretary 

 (Mr. Allen) showed that daring the past summer 

 members had visited the following places : — Runcle- 

 hurst Wood, Crawshaw Hall grounds (by permission 

 of Lord Crawshaw), Owens College, Bacup Natural 

 History Society's room, on which occ vision Alderman 

 Shepherd, Mayor of Bacup, provided tea for thn 

 members. An evening visit was also paid to the 

 Burnley Electric Lighting station, when the party 

 was shown over the works by Mr. F. Thursfield, BA., 

 A.M I C.E., to whom the Society's thanks are due 

 for making the visit one of surpassing interest. 

 During the winter session 22 papera have been read — 

 17 by members and 5 by non-members— and the thanks 

 of the Society are due to the following gentlemen for 

 iheir contributions to the syllabus : Mr. G. B. 

 RawclifiEe, Mr. Beaumont (Rochdale), Mr. A. R. 

 Pickles, prtsident of the Mid-Lancashire Union of 

 Teachers : Mr. F. J. Grant, J. P., and Mr, J. Lang- 

 field Ward, M. A, Members' papers of special local 

 value were those of Mr. A Wilmore, P. G, S,, on 

 "The glacial epoch in Burnley and district," "Ihe 

 Burnley coal-field," by Mr. J, W. Eastwood; "The 

 natural history of a local hedgebaok," (Ightenhill- 

 lane) Mr. P.O. Long, and "Local glimpses," by Mr. 

 Henry Houlding, In addition there have been two 

 concerts and a members' tea, making in all 25 indoor 

 meetings. The average attendance of members at the 

 papers, for the firstyear was 26, the second year 30, and 

 for the past year 37. At the end of the first year there were 

 51 members, at the end of the second year 71, and ihe 

 number of members is now 98 — with the ten hon. 

 members making a total membership of 108. 



During the past session the art section distinguished 

 itself by bringing together a callection of over 40 oil 

 and water-colour paintings, and these, together with 

 a number of drawings and photographs, was the work 

 of members. All these, together, with sketches 

 possessed by the Society of the late Philip Gilbert 

 Hammerton, were used to illustrate the lecture on 

 " Pictures," by Mr. J. R. Lee. This good example 

 the committee hope will be followed by some of the 

 other sections, and that during the next season, some 

 few of them, at least, will try to fill up a night each 

 with little exhibitions illustrating their special work. 



During the year many gifts have been made to the 

 Society, and many more promised. Individual 

 mention of these cannot be made here, but it is 



