THE SECRETARIES' REPORT. 
1879-80. 
The Secretaries present to the Society the following Keport of the 
proceedings of the Session. 
The Papers read were : 
1879. 
Oct. 2. 
Inaugural Address 
The President. 
„ 9- 
Conversazione 
„ 16. 
Leisure . . . . 
Mr. R. Collier. 
„ 23. 
A Popular Exposition of Dar- 
winism 
Rev. Wm. Sharman. 
„ 30. 
The Pastures of the South - West 
Mr. Thos. A. Cragoe, f.r.g.s. 
Nov. 6. 
Chemical Action . 
Mr. Alonzo J. Rider, f.c.s. 
„ 13. 
The Druidical Myth 
Mr. R. N. Worth, f.g.s. 
„ 20. 
The CEdipus Coloncus of Soph- 
ocles 
Sir George Young, Bart. 
„ 27. 
Pliny's Letters 
Mr. J. D. Lewis, m.a. 
Dec. 4. 
The Phoenicians and their Neigh- 
bours 
Rev. J. M. Hodge, m.a. 
11. 
The Decay of the Old Cornish 
Language 
Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma, m.a. 
„ 18. 
Judges and Advocates 
Mr. Hamilton Whiteford. 
1880. 
Jan. 8. 
Conversazione 
„ 15. 
Roman Devon 
The President. 
„ 22. 
Surveying by Photography 
Mr. W. A. Tweedy, b.a. 
„ 29. 
Sanitary Science in Rural Dis- 
tricts 
Mr. J. C. Inglis, c.e. 
Feb. 5. 
The Chemistry of Carbon 
Dr. Oxland, F.C.S. 
„ 12. 
The Irish Bards . 
Mr. W. Power. 
„ 19. 
Exchanges . 
Mr. A. P. Prowse. 
„ 26. 
Shakspere's Coriolamis 
Mr. W. Adams. 
Mar. 4. 
Rome in the 2nd Century a.d. 
Rev. J. Erskine Risk, m.a. 
„ 11. 
Samuel Prout, Artist: The Les- 
sons of his Work 
Mr. J. Hine, f.r.i. b.a. 
„ 18. 
The Natural History of Coal . 
Mr. F. J. Webb. 
„ 25. 
The " Stone Implements " 
Mr. Francis Brent. 
