8 Annual Pieport and Transactions of the Plymouth Institution 
1866. 
Jan. 4. Conversazione 
11. Ancient Books. Part I. 
Jan. 18. Ancient Books. Part II. 
Mr. EooKEK. 
Mr. EooKER. 
,, S. Weekes 
,, 25. Handel : liis Life and Works .... 
Feb. 1. Science and Pseudo-Science. Sir 
W. K. Hamilton 
W. J. Spry. 
J. Shelly. 
,, 8. S. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan 
,, 15. La Familistere of Guise : a Work- 
man's Home 
J. P. Mann. 
T. C. Brian. 
Vincent E. Noel,m.r.c.s. 
,, 22. The Magistracy of England 
Mar. 1. Spectrum Analysis 
8. Photography, from an Amateur's 
Point of View 
,, W. Gage Tweedy, m.a. 
Kev. W. S. L. SzYRMA, m.a. 
Mr. Pengelly, f.r.s. 
Sir J. Lubbock, f.r.s. 
,, 15. Self-Education 
„ 22. The Antiquity of the Earth 
29. Insect Life 
Of these Lectures, one only was distinctly local in its cha- 
racter, viz., the continuation of Mr. Briggs's Notes on the Flower- 
ing Plants of the Neighbourhood of Plymouth. At the beginning 
of the second half of the session, Mr. Ptooker, the President, read 
an unpublished Lecture, by Mr. Edwd. Baines, M.P., on " Ancient 
Books." Two vacancies that occurred were supplied by Mr. Shelly, 
who read a Lecture on " S. Ambrose," and the Rev. W. S. Lach 
Szyrma, who delivered a Lecture on " Self-Education." 
A suggestion made by the President in his inaugural address 
well deserves the consideration of the Members. It was, that each 
in that department of art or science, literary or historical study 
with which he was most familiar, should set himself to gather 
materials for a future History of the Town of Plymouth — a history 
which may contain full and accurate information, not only con- 
cerning the town itself, the political events that have affected it, 
and the famous men who have lived in it, but also about the 
various objects of zoological, geological, and botanical interest in 
its immediate neighbourhood. 
