44 
December, 187 8, audited as usual by two specially qualified 
unofficial members, shows a balance in hand of £17. 7s. 4d. 
The amount now invested in the New Three per Cent. 
Annuities is £854. 17s. lOd. 
8. The arrears of subscription are now as follows : — 
1872. 
1874. 1875. 
1876. 
1877. 
1878. 
Members 1 
2 1 
9 
2 
11 
Associates 0 
0 2 
2 
11 
17 
1 
2 3 
11 
13 
28 
Meetings. 
Monday, December 2, 1878.- 
— “ On Science and Man.” 
By Professor Noah 
Porter (President of Yale University, United States). 
Monday, January 6, 1879. — “ The Lapse of Time since the Glacial Epoch 
determined by the Date of the Polished Stone Age.” By J. C. 
Southall, Esq. (United States). 
Monday, January 20. — “Final Cause; a Critique of the failure of Paley 
and the fallacy of Hume.” By J. P. Thompson, D.D., LL.D. (Berlin). 
Monday, February 3. — “The Torquay Caves and their Teachings.” By 
J. E. Howard, Esq., F.R.S. 
Monday, February 17. — “ The Topography of the Sinaitic Peninsula.” By 
the Rev. F. W. Holland, M.A. (Secretary, Palestine Exploration 
Fund). 
Monday, March 3. — “ On the Evidence already obtained as to the Antiquity 
of Man.” By Professor T. McK. Hughes, F.R.S. (Wood wardian 
Professor of Geology at Cambridge University). 
Monday, March 17. — A Lecture (Geological Ages and the Mosaic Cos- 
mogony). Rev. A. Stewart, M.D., LL.D. (Intermediate). 
Monday, April 7. — “ Does the Contemporaneity of Man with the Extinct 
Mammalia, as shown by recent Cavern Exploration, prove the Antiquity 
of Man ? ” By T. K. Callard, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 
Monday, April 21. — “The System of Zoroaster considered in connection 
with Archaic Monotheism.” By R. Brown, Esq., F.S.A. 
Monday, May 5. — Lecture by Professor Lee, D.D. (Glasgow L T niversity). 
Monday, May 19. — “ The Ethnology of the Pacific.” By the Rev. S. J. 
Whitmee, F.L.S. 
Monday, June 16. — The Annual Address by Dr. Radcliffe, Vice-President. 
9. The meetings during this session have been numerously 
attended, and the improvements in the Lecture Room have, 
it is hoped, added to the general comfort. 
Publications. 
10. The Twelfth Volume of the Journal of Transactions has 
been issued. 
11. Lectures. — In many places, at home and abroad, the 
papers in the Journal continue to be used, both by Members 
and Non-members, as the basis of lectures; and several letters 
have been received commending them as being just what 
were needed. One most active and popular lecturing Member 
