Officers: T. Sheppard, President; R.W. Aske, Past President; H. Johnson, J.E. Forty, J. Nelson, A. Jordan, Vice-Presidents; Rev E.C. Cree and S. Nicholson, Secretaries; P. Pigott, Treasurer. Council: H. Best; E.H. Earle; Ed. Lamplough; R.H. Philip; S. Harris; H. Boden; W.J. Strachan; Rev W. Whitaker.

Syllabus:

Annual Dinner, 19 Oct 1908; 'The Evolution of an English City' by T. Sheppard, 26 Oct 1908; 'A Peaceful War: A Fragment of Future History' by R.H. Philip, 2 Nov 1908; 'The Significance of Literature to the Average Man, M. Harrison, 9 Nov 1908; 'Herrick' by J.P. Lockwood, 16 Nov 1908; Meeting at Wilberforce House, 23 Nov 1908; 'Tom Hood' by E.M. Hogarth, 30 Nov 1908; 'Illuminated Manuscripts' by E.H. Earle, 7 Dec 1908; 'John Davidson' by W.J. Strachan, 16 Dec 1908; Christmas Revels, 21 Dec 1908; 'Whittier as Poet and Artist' by S. Harris, 18 Jan 1909; 'The Dramas of Ibsen' by J.H. Noble, 25 Jan 1909; Robert Louis Stevenson' by J.J. Campbell, 1 Feb 1909; 'The Sea and Joseph Conrad' by H. Johnson, 8 Feb 1909; 'The Materialistic Conception of History by J. Nelson, 15 Feb 1909; Conversazione at the Museum (Ladies' Evening), 22 Feb 1909; 'A Survey of Economic Development' by J.H. Wilson, 1 Mar 1909; 'The English Heroic Couplet' by J.E. Forty, 8 Mar 1909; 'Rabelais and the Renaissance in France' by J. Leith Waters, 15 Mar 1909; 'Mss. and other Old Friends from my Bookcase' by J. Brown, 22 Mar 1909; 'A Nation in the Melting Pot - Some Lessons of the French Revolution' by W.C. Dawson, 29 Mar 1909; Review of the Session and Annual Meeting, 4 Apr 1909.

Meetings held 8pm at the Royal Station Hotel.