SECEETARIES' REPOKT. 
1864-5. 
Theee was much that was hopeful in the position and pros- 
pects of the Society, at the beginning of its fifty-first session. 
Five Lecturing Members and fifteen Associates were proposed at 
the first meeting after the summer recess, and were subsequently 
elected. The session was opened with a conversazione, and its 
commencement was further marked by the revival of an old 
custom, the reading of Reports by various Members on scientific 
progress, — a practice which, it is hoped, may be continued and 
extended in future years to a review of Literature and Art. 
The following is the list of Lectures, as delivered : — 
1864. 
Oct. 3. Conversazione. 
,, 6. Inaugural Address The Peesident. 
„ 13. Reports on Scientific Progress : — 
„ 20. The Primitive Kaces of Devon ,, W. S. L. Szyema, b.a. 
„ 27. On a Cornish Kjokkenmodding .. ,, C. SpenceBate,f.e.s.,f,l.s. 
Geology 
Botany 
Zoology . 
Mr. C. Spence Bate, f.r.s., f.l.s,. 
„ L W.N. Keys. 
,, J. Beooking Eowe, f.l.s. 
,, W. S. L. Szyema, b.a. 
,, S. Catee. 
Ethnology 
Geography 
Nov. 3. 
n 10. 
Language 
On the Flowering Plants of the 
Neighbourhood of Plymouth. 
Part II 
Sir J. BOWEING, LL.D., F.E.S. 
Mr. T. R. A. Beiggs. 
17. 
Art as applied to Town Buildings, 
with references to Plymouth 
J. HiNE. 
24. 
The Decoration and Furniture of 
Houses 
J. Shelly. 
