REPORTS 
PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, 
5th April, 1888. 
The Secretaries have once more the pleasure of being able to 
present a satisfactory Keport of the working of the Plymouth 
Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society. 
The proceedings of the Session 1887-88 have not, it is true, 
been marked by any exceptional features ; but the operations 
of the Society have been carried forward in a very satisfactory 
manner, and substantial progress in several directions has been 
made. 
The Lectures, on the whole, have been well attended, and some 
of the discussions were exceptionally animated. As in the 
previous year, there has been a noteworthy addition to the list 
of Lecturers, and several of the subjects have been of peculiar 
interest, an unusual number bearing on topics of a more or 
less immediately local character. 
The programme was as follows : 
1887. 
Oct. 6. 
Conversazione. 
„ 13. 
President's Address. 
„ 20. 
The Cattedown Cave 
Mr. R. N. Worth, f.g.s. 
„ 27. 
Plympton 
Mr. J. Brooking Rowe. 
Nov. 3. 
The Drama ..... 
Mr. Greenlaw 
„ 10. 
Thomas a Becket .... 
Mr. F. J. Webb, f.g.s. 
„ 17. 
The Race and the Nation ; or, The 
Elements of True Nationality . 
Rev. J. E. Risk, m.a. 
„ 24. 
Some Present-day Evidence for the 
Ricardo Theory of Rent 
Mr. D. D. Dobell. 
Dec. 1. 
Discussion: Dartmoor. Introduced by Mr. W. Gage Tweedy, b.a. 
„ 8. 
Vittore Pisano, Medallist 
Mr. J. Shelly. 
„ 15. 
Grattan's Parliament 
Mr. G. Slater, b.a. 
22. 
Home Arts and Industries 
Mr. J. Phillips. 
