Mr. T. Clegg. — I move— 
“ That the report of the Council, now read, be received, adopted, printed, 
and circulated among the members and associates. 
I almost feel an intruder here ; but having done nothing hitherto for this 
Institute, and being here on this occasion, I could scarcely refuse to move 
this resolution when asked to do so. It struck me while the report was 
being read, that the plan which you contemplate, by way of coercion, of pub- 
lishing the names of those who do not pay their subscriptions, is not a wise 
one. °(Hear, hear.) I think a preferable plan would be to make the Society 
and its objects more widely known. I think, for instance, that you might 
visit Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, and other large towns, and hold 
meetings. I am sure you would find many gentlemen who would be glad to 
give you the use of their drawing-rooms for that purpose. Long ago I offered 
to receive Admiral Fishbourne, and to give my assistance in Manchester, 
and I think that if members were sent from this Institute into the provinces 
in that way, and made our objects more widely known, we might get an abund- 
ance of subscribers. That would be far better than the adoption of any plan 
of coercion by publishing the names of defaulting subscribers ; to do so is 
always objectionable. (Hear, hear.) 
Mr. Lindsay, of Belfast.— I have much pleasure in seconding the motion, 
and I hope the Institute will be more successful in the future than it has 
been in the past. (Hear, hear.) 
Mr. Keddie. — I may say that it was not intended to publish the names 
of non-paying subscribers of an ordinary kind, but there are a few subscribers 
who have fora very long time neglected to pay, although they have accepted 
the copies of our Journal of Transactions. In one instance, where the supply 
of our journal had actually been stopped, the member wrote to me asking 
that the parts in arrear might be sent to him, and that he would pay up his 
subscriptions from the beginning. The books were sent to him, but the sub- 
scriptions due have never come. (Laughter.) The proposal in the report 
has been made with some caution. It is not suggested that defaulting sub- 
scribers should invariably be gibbeted in this way, but only that it would be 
a proper course to pursue in a case like that I have mentioned. I am 
anxious that it should not be supposed that we would make use of the dis- 
cretionary power we ask for without great consideration. Although we have 
two or three arrears of subscriptions, dating from 1866, we have as yet taken 
no steps of the kind. As to the proposal to go to Manchester, and Mr. Clegg’s 
very kind offer to Admiral Fishbourne, it was proposed that I should go 
down with him, and if I could have spared the time and expense I would 
have been happy to have done so. The only practicable way, however, of 
arranging this matter is for Mr. Clegg to become our Honorary Local Secre- 
tary for Manchester. (Hear, hear.) Let him work down there, and then, 
when we have sufficient funds, some of those gentlemen who have read papers 
in the Institute might be asked to go down and deliver lectures, giving a sort 
