THE SECRETARIES' REPORT. 
1881-82. 
In presenting the following TCeport of the Proceedings of the 
Society during the last Session, the Secretaries have to observe 
that prosperity has continued to mark this Session as before. 
Many Members and Associates have joined the Institution during 
the year, and, although vacancies have occurred through death and 
other causes, the list of Members, &c, is somewhat larger than it 
was during the former Session. 
The Meetings have been well attended, the average number 
present being ninety-one. The Lectures, of which twenty-two 
have been delivered, were of much interest, and the discussions were 
able. The Lectures announced on the cards were delivered with 
one exception, when, Mr. Arthur Shelly being unable to read his 
paper on "Nature and Art in the practice of Landscape Painting," 
his place was supplied by Mr. Alderman Shelly, with a paper on 
the "Famines in India." 
The Papers read were as follows ; viz. : 
1881. 
Oct. 6. 
„ 13. 
„ 20. 
n 27. 
Nov. 3. 
„ 10. 
» 17. 
„ 24. 
Dec. 1. 
15. 
22. 
Conversazione .... 
The President's Address 
A Hundred Thousand Years Ago 
Rock Basins, and a Pilgrimage to 
the Peaks of Otter 
Corporal Punishment 
The Place of Poetry in Education 
Popular Recreation . 
Notes on Macbeth 
Sir Francis Drake Rehabilitated 
and Memorialised . 
Chemistry of Carbon (2nd Lecture) 
A Chapter in the Germ Theory . 
The Founders of Charles Church 
Rev. W. Sharman, f.g.s. 
Mr. T. A. CliAGOE, F.R.G.S. 
G. Jago. 
Dr. Wm, H. Pearse. 
Mr. Thomas Plummer. 
,, Frederic Neild, m.d. 
Rev. J. Erskine Risk, m.a. 
Dr. Robert Oxland, f.c.s. 
„ Wm. Cash Reed. 
Mr. E. G. Bennett. 
