SECRETARIES' REPORT, 



1869-70. 



Your Secretaries beg to congratulate the Society on the close of 

 what has been in all respects a very successful Session. 



The attendance in the hall, including the Conversazione, has 

 averaged neaiiy seventy- one persons on each evening; and the 

 debates have been, with few exceptions, well sustained. 



The following is the list of papers read : — 

 1869. 



Oct. 7. Inaugural Address 



„ 14. Cavour, tiie Italian Statesman . 



„ 21. Sec Englisce Spra^c 



„ 28. Political Economy 

 Nov. 4. The Flora of Plymouth : its Denizens, 

 Colonists, and Aliens 



„ 11. Common Salt . . . . 



„ 18, Bases of History : the Materials 

 ,, 2o. The Centenarj' of the Steam Engine . 

 Dec. 2. Is it a Fact? .... 

 „ 9. The Bessemer Process of Manufac- 

 turing Steel . . . . 

 16. Mesmerism, and its allied conditions . 



1870. 







Jan. 13. 



Conversazione . . . . 





„ 20. 



The Art and Science Claims of Photo- 







graphy . . . . 



Mr. T. W. Coffin. 



„ 27. 



Degeneration of our Deep -Sea Fish- 







eries . . . . 



Mr. J. N. IIearder, f.c.s. 



Fob. 3. 



Cornish Names . . . . 



Rev. J. Bannistek, ll.d. 



„ 10. 



Recent Applications of the Spectrum 







Analysis . . . 



Mr. R. Bishop. 



„ 17. 



OwY Brains . . . . 



Mr. "W. Square, jun. 



24. 



Philosophy versus Materialism . 



Rev. J. M. Charlton, m.a. 



The President. 

 Mr. E. Spender. 

 Mr. D. Slater, m.a. 

 Mr. W. Adams. 



Mr. T. R. A. Briggs. 



Mr. G. W. Ormerod, m.a., 



f.g.s. 

 Mr. A. RooKER. 

 Mr. R. OXLAND, F.c.s. 

 Mr. W. Pengelly, f.r.s. 



Mr. J. Carkeet, c.e. 

 Dr. C. A. HiNGSTON. 



