IV. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



During the past year books and periodicals have been 

 purchased at a cost of £79 2s. 5d.; a large number of un- 

 bound books and periodicals have been and are being 

 covered in a cheap style of binding which will make them 

 accessible to the members; 645 volumes have been bound at 

 a cost of £49, and 170 volumes are now in the binder's 

 hands. 



The number of Institutions on the existing list is 432, 

 and the publications received in exchange for the Society's 

 Journal and Proceedings during the past year were 173 

 volumes, 2,053 parts, 93 reports, 63 pamphlets, 11 maps, 

 and 4 engravings, total 2,397. 



During the past year the Society held 8 meetings at 

 which 18 papers were read ; the average attendance of 

 members was 31*3 and of visitors l'l. 



The Engineering Section held 6 meetings at which 2 

 papers were read and discussed. 



A series of Popular Science Lectures, illustrated by 

 lantern slides, was delivered during 1908, at the Society's 

 House at 8 p.m. as follows : — 



June 18 — "The Blood in Health and Disease" by J. F. Flash- 

 man, M.D., Ch.M. 



July 17 — "Life under increased Atmospheric Pressure" by H. G. 

 Chapman, m.d., b.s. 



September 17 — "Carbon Dioxide and some of its Properties" by 

 T. Steel, p.l.s. Illustrated by Experiments. 



October 15 — "The Economic Use of Timbers" by G. A. Julius, 



B. Sc, M.E. 



November 19 — "John Dalton and One Hundred Years of the 

 Atomic Theory" by F. B. Guthrie, p.i.c 



The following Financial Statement for the year ended 31st 

 March, 1909, was presented by the Hon. Treasurer, received 

 and adopted : — 



