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7, ADELPHI TEKRACE, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 



Correspondence (including applications from intending Members or 

 Associates, &c.) to be addressed to " The Secretary." (For Subscriptions see 

 page 2.) 



OBJECTS. 



TJ1HIS SOCIETY has been founded for the purpose of promoting the following 

 -*- Objects, which will be admitted by all to be of high importance both to 

 Religion and Science : 



First. To investigate fully and impartially the most important questions of 

 Philosophy and Science, but more especially those that bear upon the great 

 truths revealed in Holy Scripture, with the view of reconciling any apparent 

 discrepancies between Christianity and Science. 



Second. To associate MEN OF SCIENCE and AUTHORS* who have already 

 been engaged in such investigations, and all others who may be interested 

 in them, in order to strengthen their efforts by association, and by bringing 

 together the results of such labours, after full discussion, in the printed 

 Transactions of an Institution ; to give greater force and influence to proofs 

 and arguments which might be little known, or even disregarded, if put 

 forward merely by individuals. 



[For the special advantages secured to Country and Colonial Members and 

 Associates in the Journal of Transactions see below.] 



Third. To consider the mutual bearings of the various scientific conclusions 

 arrived at in the several distinct branches into which Science is now 

 divided, in order to get rid of contradictions and conflicting hypotheses, and 

 thus promote the real advancement of true Science ; and to examine and 

 discuss all supposed scientific results with reference to final causes, and the 

 more comprehensive and fundamental principles of Philosophy proper, based 

 upon faith in the existence of one Eternal God, who in His wisdom created 

 all things very good. 



Fourth. To publish Papers read before the Society in furtherance of the above 

 objects, along with full reports of the discussions thereon, in the form of a 

 Journal, or as the Transactions of the Institute. 

 Fifth. "When subjects have been fully discussed, to make the results known by 



means of Lectures of a more popular kind, and to publish such Lectures. 

 Sixth. To publish English translations of important foreign works of real 

 scientific and philosophical value, especially those bearing upon the relation 

 between the Scriptures and Science ; and to co-operate with other philo 

 sophical societies at home and abroad, which are now or may hereafter be 

 formed, in the interest of Scriptural truth and of real Science, and generally 

 in furtherance of the objects of this Society. 



Seventh. To found a Library and Reading Rooms for the use of the Members 

 of the Institute combining the principal advantages of a Literary Club. 



* The Society now consists of 860 Subscribing Members (NEARLY TWO-TniRDS OF WHOM 

 ARE COUNTRY AND FOREIGN MEMBERS) ; including his Grace the Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury and other Prelates and leading Ministers of Religion, Professors of English and 

 Foreign Universities, Literary and Scientific Men in general, and others favourable to the 

 (The present average annual increase is upwards of a hundred.) 



