REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR igi6. 
• 6 • 
Vlll 
Committee has been formed whose report will be found on 
page xii of this Report. 
The following is a full list of the Lectures delivered in the 
Tempest Anderson Hall. We regret that owing to lighting 
restrictions the attendance has not been as good as usual, 
as the lectures, have been of a particularly interesting character. 
Thursday, January 6th.—“The Coastwise Lights of England.” By Miss G. 
Bacon. 
Thursday, January 20th.—“ The Spider as an Engineer.” By F. W. Saxby. 
Thursday, February 3rd.—“The House Fly in War Time.” By John J. Ward. 
Thursday, February 17th.—“ On Taking a Holiday.” By Edgar Bellingham 
Thursday, March 2nd.—“Cambridge and its Colleges.” By the Rev. Jocelyn 
Perkins. 
Thursday, March 16th.—“The End of the War and Afterwards.” By F. E. 
Tillemont Thompson. 
Thursday, October 8th.—“ The Dead Cities of the Zuider Zee.” By Edgar 
Bellingham. 
Thursday, October 19th.—“ The Land of the Dons.” By the Rev. Alec 
Taylor, M.A. 
Thursday, November 2nd.—“ Signs and Wonders in the Heavens.” By 
Miss G. Bacon. 
Thursday, November 16th.—“ The Advance to Bagdad and the Fall of Kut.” 
By James Reid. 
Thursday, November 30th.—“ Secrets in Sands.” By C. Carus Wilson, F.R.S. 
Thursday, December 14th.—" The Empires of the World and the Men who 
made them.” By the Rev. F. Baton Williams. 
The following Papers were read at the Monthly Meetings of 
the Society during 1916 :— 
January 16th.—“The Churches of York.” By J. H. Hill. 
March 13th.—“A Long Day in the Italian Alps.” By George Yeld. 
April 10th.—“Maiden Hair Tree,” (with Microscopic Specimens to illustrate 
his lecture). By J. S. Gayner. 
October 7th.—“Life in a Mediaeval Castle.” By C. E. Hodgson. 
November 13th.—“ Mediaeval Women in Fact and Fiction.” By Dr. Maud 
Sellers. 
December nth.—“The Sight of Birds.” By C. E. Elmhirst. 
All the above Lectures and Papers were with Lantern Illustrations. 
During the past year the Society has lost by death and 
resignation 36 members, 14 lady subscribers, and 3 associates, 
whilst 25 new subscribers have joined the Society. 
