REPORT 
PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS, 
3rd April, 1890. 
The Secretaries have pleasure in submitting a satisfactory Eeport 
of the working of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and 
Cornwall Natural History Society for the past year. 
The Session just brought to a close compares favourably with 
former years in more than one respect, while the lists presented a 
series of Lectures on the most interesting and varied subjects, as 
the programme subjoined shows. 
1889. 
Oct. 3. 
Conversazione. 
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President's Address. 
„ 17. 
Monuments and Monumental 
Art of the Ancient Egyptians 
Mr. Robert Murray. 
„ 24. 
The Rise of English Engraving 
Mr. R. Burnard. 
„ 31. 
Some of our Plymouth Sea- 
Mr. G. C. Bignell, f.e.s. 
Nov. 7. 
The Formation of Local Varieties 
of a Species .... 
Mr. W. F. R. Weldon, m.a. 
„ 14. 
Land Transfer 
Mr. J. Y. Woollcombe. 
„ 21. 
Plymouth's Position in the 
History of the World . 
Rev. W. S. Lach Szyrma, m.a. 
„ 28. 
Woman Suffrage 
Rev. Prof. Anthony, m.a. 
Dec. 5. 
Bi-metallism .... 
Mr. C. F. Burnard. 
„ 12. 
On the Flight of Birds . 
Mr. F. H. Balkwill. 
„ 19. 
The Moorland Plym . 
Mr. R. Hansford Worth, c.e. 
1890. 
Jan. 2. 
Conversazione. 
„ 9. 
Educational Theories in France 
in the Eighteenth Century 
Miss A. J. Cooper. 
„ 16. 
Institutions by Growth and by 
Creation .... 
Mr. D. D. Dobell. 
23. 
Social and Moral Condition of 
Rome in the First Century . 
Mr. F. H. Colson, m.a. 
„ 30. 
Charity and Charities 
Mr. R. N. Worth, f.g.s. 
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