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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR I9I5. 
The Railway Institute is still in the occupation of the 
military and your Council again placed the Tempest Anderson 
Hall at the disposal of Institute members for their Course of 
Lectures, and these have been attended by large audiencies. 
Our own Lectures have been held as usual, and the follow¬ 
ing is a full list of them :— 
Thursday, January 21st.—“ The Moon and its Mountains/’ (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By Ellison Hawks. 
Thursday, February 4th.—“ Rambles round Oxford,” (with Lantern Illustra¬ 
tions). By Rev. Jocelyn Perkins, M.A. 
Thursday, February 18th.—“ Wonderland of the Wasps/’ (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By J. J. Ward, F.E.S. 
Thursday, March 4th.—“ Spitzbergen,” (with Lantern Illustrations). By 
Prof. R. N. Rudmose Brown. 
Thursday, March 18th.—“ Wessex—Stonehenge,” (with Lantern Illustrations). 
By A. H. Garstang. 
Thursday, April 1st—Members of the Photographic Section gave a Lantern 
Night. 
Thursday, October 7th.—“ The Eastern War Campaign,” (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By Rev. T. T. Norgate. 
Thursday, October 21st.—“ Prehistoric Man and his Times,” (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By Walter S. Rowntree, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
Thursday, November 4th.—“ Yorkshire Birds and Animals,” (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By Oxley Grabham, M.A., M.B.O.U. 
Thursday, November 18th.—“The Art of the-Alhambra,” (with Lantern 
Illustrations). By Rev. A. Taylor, M.A. 
Thursday, December 2nd.—“ Comets and Meteorites,” (with Lantern Illus¬ 
trations). By Professor W. A. Douglas Rudge, M.A. 
Thursday, December 16th.—“African Native Costumes,” (with Lantern Illus¬ 
trations). By Harry K. Eustace. 
The following Papers were read at the Monthly Meetings of 
the Society during 1915 :— 
January nth.—“ The Use of the Divining Rod,” (with Lantern Illustrations.) 
By Oxley Grabham, M.A. 
March 8th.—“ The Theory of Inoculation for Typhoid Fever and Opsonic 
Test.” By Colonel R. F. Meysey Thompson. 
April nth.—“ British Reptiles, and Amphibians,” (with Lantern Illustrations). 
By Oxley Grabham, M.A. 
October nth.—“Gravitation,” (Illustrated by Diagrams and Experiments). 
By Dr. Phillips. 
November 8th.—“ The Old Churches of York,” (with Lantern Illustrations). 
By Mr. George Benson, A.R.I.B.A. 
Decenner 13th.—“ Castle Howard, its Architecture and Works of Art,” (with 
Lantern Illustrations). By Alfred B. Burleigh, President of the York 
and East Riding Architectural Society. 
