8 Annual Report and Transactions of the Plymouth Institution 
1868. 
Jan. 2. Conversazione 
,, 9. Houses of the Working Classes . . The President. 
,, 16. The Study of Language Eev. W. S. L. Szyrma, m.a. 
,, 23. Voltaic Electricity Mr. J. N. Hearder, f.c.s. 
„ 30. The Effect of Soil on the Flora of 
Plymouth ,, T. R. A. Briggs. 
Feb. 6. On Natural and Circumstantial 
Development of Languages Dr. Bikkers. 
,, 13. The Pyrenees Mr. A. Booker. 
20. A Review of Professor Tyndall's 
Recent Investigations concerning 
Sensitive Flames J. N. Hearder, f.c.s. 
,, 27. Education of the People ,, Jago. 
Mar. 5. Ancient Tin Mines of Devon and 
Cornwall : an unpublished paper, 
by Mr. Richard Edmonds 
12. Comte's Positive Philosophy Rev. C. B. Symes, b.a. 
,, 19. Natal, and its Prospects as a British 
Colony Mr. S. W. Rowse. 
26. Bentham's Theory of Legislation. . ,, R. Collier. 
Four lecturers were prevented from fulfilling their engagements, 
and three of the vacancies thus caused were supplied by other 
lecturers. On the 5th of December a discussion on Education 
was introduced by Mr. Prowse, who read a recent address by Mr. 
Robert Lowe, M.P., — Sir John Bowring having been prevented by 
serious illness from giving a lecture which he had promised, and 
which he had entitled " Education : New Times, New Men, New 
Responsibilities." 
Mr. Bate's lecture on " Recent Researches in Marine Zoology," 
Mr. Briggs's on " The Effect of Soil on the Flora of Plymouth," 
Mr. Shelly's on "The Devonshire Dialect," and two papers by 
Mr. Richard Edmonds, read by Mr. Bate, claim notice as being of 
local interest. It is hoped that at least one of Mr. Edmonds's 
papers may be published in the Transactions of the Society. On 
three evenings Education has been the subject of the lecture or 
