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Spencer and Prof. Thomas H. Huxley, of London, England ; Al- 

 fred Russel "Wallace, D. C. L., LL. D., of Parkstone, Dorset, Eng- 

 land, the co-discoverer with Darwin of the law of natural selection ; 

 Prof. William Graham, M. A., of Queens College, Belfast, Ireland, 

 author of The Creed of Science, Social Problems, etc. ; M. Th. Ri- 

 bot, of Paris, France, editor of the Revue Philosophique, perhaps 

 the most eminent advocate of the doctrine of evolution in that 

 country ; Count Goblet d'Alviella, of Brussels, Belgium, author of 

 Evolution of Contemporary Religious Thought ; Prof. Ernst 

 Haeckel, of the University of Jena, Saxe-Weimar, Germany, au- 

 thor of The History of Creation, Evolution of Man, etc. ; Prof. A. 

 Hjalmar Edgren, Chancellor of the University of Gothenburg, 

 Sweden ; Baboo Pratapa Chandra Roy, translator of the Mahabha- 

 rata ; and Baboo Amrita Lai Roy, editor of The Hindoo Magazine, 

 Calcutta, India ; and in our own country, Prof. Joseph Le Conte, 

 LL. D., of the University of California, author of Evolution as re- 

 lated to Religious Thought, etc. ; Prof. William Emmette Coleman, 

 of San Francisco, member of the American Oriental Society ; Prof. 

 Edward D. Cope, Ph. D., of the University of Pennsylvania, au- 

 thor of Origin of the Fittest, etc. ; Prof. Edward S. Morse, of the 

 Peabody Institute, Salem, Mass. ; Prof. John Fiske, of Cambridge, 

 Mass., author of Cosmic Philosophy, etc. ; Prof. Otis T. Mason, of 

 the National Museum, Washington, D. C, President of the Ameri- 

 can Folk Lore Society ; Prof. Amos G. Warner, Superintendent of 

 Public Charities, Washington, D. C, recently elected to the chair 

 of Economics in the Leland Stanford University, California ; Rev. 

 William J. Potter, of New Bedford, Mass., President of the Free 

 Religious Association ; Rev. Minot J. Savage, of Boston, author 

 of the Evolution of Morality, etc. ; Rev. E. P. Powell, of Clinton, 

 N. Y., author of Our Heredity from God, etc. ; Andrew Dickson 

 White, LL. D., late President of Cornell University and United 

 States Minister to Russia ; Mr. Frederick May Holland, of Con- 

 cord, Mass. ; Mr. J. W. Alfred Cluett, of Troy, N. Y. ; Rev. John 

 C. Kimball, of Hartford, Conn., and others. 



Though the association is perhaps best known for its advocacy 

 of evolution views, its terms of membership are entirely undog- 

 matic and unsectarian, being conditioned only by good moral char- 

 acter and a tacit pledge to the use of the scientific method in its 

 investigations. Its constitution expressly declares that "member- 

 ship in this association shall not be regarded as committing one 

 to any particular form of religious belief, nor as interfering with 

 other religious or secular connections. No doctrinal test shall ever 

 be required as a condition of membership. Any person of good 

 moral character, over eighteen years of age, approving the objects 

 of the association, may become a member on recommendation of 

 the Committee on Membership, duly reported to and approved by 



