SIXTH MEETING. 



ROYAL INSTITUTION, January 13th, 1844. 



♦ 



JOS. B. YATES, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. George Millett Davis was admitted a Member of 

 the Society. 



The Secretary exhibited specimens of Writing, Print- 

 ing, and Engraving, and explained a new and simple pro- 

 cess by which they were accurately copied — (the " Anastatic" 

 process.) 



The President read extracts from the Report of Cri- 

 minal Statistics, by the Rev. John Clay, of Preston, showing 

 the connexion that exists between Occupation and Crime. 



THE PAPER FOR THE EVENING WAS 



remarks on the theory advanced IN " vestiges of the 



NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION."— By the Rev. A. Hvise, LL.D. 



In analysing the contents, of the volume, it was stated 

 that the leading positions were two in number, (1) the 

 assumption of the truth of the " Nebular Hypothesis," and 

 (2) the adoption of the theory of " Progressive Develop- 

 ment" in Geology, — the allusion to other subjects being 

 rather subordinate and supplementary. These two positions, 

 the writer of the paper distinctly stated to be both 

 untenable, as far as science was concerned ; and pronounced 

 that the former was not proved, and the latter untrue. In 

 support of this criticism, allusion was made to the want of 



