SECRETARIES' REPORT. 
1878-79. 
The Secretaries present to the Society 
proceedings of the Session. 
The Papers read and discussed were 
1878. 
Oct. 3. Inaugural Address 
10. Some Facts and Opinions re- 
specting the use of Alcohol 
Weather and Weather Charts . 
The Limitations of "Free Trade" 
Notes on Local Etymologies 
Nov. 7. The Extinct Giant Birds of the 
Southern Hemisphere . 
English Literature from the 
Elizabethan to the Victorian 
Era ... 
The English Language in the 
Light of Modern Scholarship 
English Dialects . 
Dec. 5. The Rationale of the Distinction 
between Matter and Mind . 
Country Fairs and Revels 
Digestion 
17. 
24. 
81. 
7. 
14. 
21. 
28. 
5. 
„ 12. 
„ 19. 
1879. 
Jan. 9. 
„ 16. 
Feb 
Conversazione. 
Local Literature, Past and 
Present 
23. Lighting by Electricity . 
30. Shakespeare's " Julius Caesar" . 
6. The Sclavonic Nations outside 
the Russian Empire. Com- 
municated by . . 
„ 13. Shakespeare's " Coriolanus " 
„ 20. The Bone Caves of the Plymouth 
District 
the following Eeport of the 
The President. 
Rev. Harry Oxland. 
Dr. Meurifield, f.r.a s., f.m.s. 
Rev. Wm. Sharman. 
Mr. R. N. Worth, f.g s. 
Major Briggs. 
Mr. T. A. Cragoe, f.g.s. 
Mr. D. Slater, m.a. 
Mr. J. Shelly. 
Rev. Professor Chapman, m.a. 
Mr. Fabyan Amery. 
Mr. W. Square, f.r.c.s , f r.g.s. 
Mr. W. H. K. Wright, f.r h.s 
Mr. C. Oxland. 
Mr. Frederic Neild, m d. 
Rev. W. S Lach-Szyrma, m a. 
f.r. h.s. 
Mr. Lewis Lewis, m.r.c s. 
Mr. R. N. Worth, f.g.s. 
