SECEETAEIES' EEPORT. 



xiii 



Singer's Electricity. 



Theories of History. 



Welsford on the English I/anguage. 



Welsford's Mithridates. 



Zoological Record, vol. 3. 



Zoological Society's Proceedings for 1855. 



' ' He is sorry to say that a work of great local interest, entitled 

 'A Picture of Plymouth,' of the date 1812, recently disappeared 

 from the library; and as there is no entry respecting it in the book 

 on the table, he is obliged to consider this also a missing volume. 



' ' The only serial that has been added during the past year to 

 those previously subscribed for is " Kature " — one devoted to 

 science." 



"Some of the volumes in the library have been injured by 

 damp, and the Librarian hopes that before next winter some prac- 

 tically scientific member will devise a means for at least occasionally 

 heating the room during that season. 



" T. R. Akcher Briggs. 



''April Wi, 1870." 



In the Natural History Department one of your associates, 

 Mr. G. C. Bignoll, has continued his kind otfiees in arranging the 

 specimens of entomology in the Museum. 



The Rev. J. Bannister, ll.d., Vicar of St. Day, Cornwall, and 

 author of a valuable Glossary of "Cornish Names," has been elected 

 corresponding member of the Institution during the year. 



The best thanks of the Society are due to Mr. E. Lane for the 

 gift of a very handsome and valuable portrait of the late Mr. 

 Jacobson. As the portrait of one of our own members, and painted 

 by a local artist, such a gift is both appropriate and acceptable to 

 the Plymouth Institution. 

 (Signed) 



FREDERIC E. ANTHONY, ) ^ ^ 



> Hon. Skcs. 

 C. ALBERT KINGSTON, j 



April H///, 1870. 



