READ AT THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. Ill 



The Report also referred to the Institute's usefulness to Members, 

 &c., all over the world, and to its carefully -planned organisation. 

 The Papers read were*: 



Meetings. 

 MONDAY, DECEMBER 3. "On some of the principal Races mentioned in 



the Bible " (with illustrations from the Babylonian, Assyrian, and 



Egyptian Monuments). By Rev, H. G. TOMKINS. 

 MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1889. "On Colours in Nature." By Rev. F. A. 



WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 

 MONDAY, JANUARY 21." Investigations on the Sciences of Language and 



Ethnography." By Dr. LEITNER. 

 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4. "The Factors of Evolution in Language." By 



JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY, Esq. With Notes by Professor F. MAX 



MULLER, D.C.L. 

 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18. " Scientific Research and Revelation." By C. S. 



WILKINSON, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., Pres. Royal Society of New South 



Wales. 



MONDAY, MARCH 4. " The Meaning and History of the Logos of Philo- 

 sophy." By Rev. H. J. CLARKE. 

 MONDAY, MARCH 18. " The Dawn of Metallurgy among Primitive Races." 



By Rev. J. M. MELLO, M.A., F.G.S. 

 MONDAY, APRIL 1. " On the Creation Tablets.'' By Professor WARBING. 



Ph.D. 

 MONDAY, APRIL 15. "On the Ethnology and Ancient Chronology of 



China." By Surgeon-General GORDON, C.B., Hon. Physician to the 



Queen . 

 MONDAY, MAY 6. 1. " On Cuts on Bones as Evidence of Man's Existence 



in Remote Ages." By Professor T. McK. HUGHES, M.A., F.R.S., 



Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University ; with 



comments by Professor RUPERT JONES, F.R.S., and others. 



2. " Modern Science and Natural Religion." By Rev. C. G. ASHWIN, 



MONDAY, MAY 20. A Paper on " The Early History of Eastern Nations 

 and their Language." By Major CONDER, D.C.L., R.E., late Palestine 

 Survey (now of the Ordnance Survey) ; with comments by several 

 leading Philologists. 



MONDAY, JUNE 3. Extra I. On " The Butterflies and Moths of Africa." 

 By W. F, KIRBY, Esq. (British Museum). 



2. " Niobe, or Neferura-Urmaa," the daughter of the King of the 

 Hittites." By the Rev. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S. 



MONDAY, JULY 1. Annual Meeting at the House of the Society of Arts : 

 Address on " The Cuneiform Inscriptions at Tel El-Amarna," by Pro- 

 fessor A. H. SAYCE, LL.D., Dep. Professor of Comparative Philology 

 to the University of Oxford. 



Second Extra Meeting at the House of the Society of Arts : Paper by 

 M. EDOUARD NAVILLE on " The Historical Results of the Excavations 

 at Bubastis, &c." 



* Some of the papers read before the Institute are of a more popular kind, 

 and others are careful investigations of important questions in philosophy 

 and science (object 1). These papers and the discussions thereon are of the 

 highest value in furthering the great objects for which the Institute was 

 founded, and the aid of the most distinguished scholars (whether Members 

 or not) is deemed of special importance at all meetings at which these 

 questions are considered. 



