ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 The President, Sir G. G. Stokes, Bart., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following Elections were announced : — 



Life Member : — The Hon. L. Kinnaird. 



Members : — J. H. Anderson, Esq., Middlesex ; Miss F. Reade, India. 



Cor. Member : — Professor Fritz Hommel, Ph.D., Bavaria. 



Life Associates : — Rev. L. P. Conrad, B.D., M.S., United States ; A. E. 

 Martineau, Esq., India. 



Associates : — Admiral H. McC. Alexander, R.N., Irehind ; His Excel- 

 lency Grant Bey, M.D., Egypt ; Rev. J. D. Bryan, Alexandria ; Rev. 

 T. Stirling Berry, D.D., Ireland ; Rev. Principal E. Elmer Harding, 

 M.A., St. Aidan's Coll. ; W. Kirkaldy, Esq., Surrey ; W. A. Lea, 

 Esq., B.A., B.Sc, Canada ; G. Munt, Esq., Surrey ; Rev. J. Matthews, 

 M.A., Middlesex ; Rev. W. H. Macpherson, United States ; Rev. J. T, 

 Pettee, A.M., United States; Rev. Prof. L. B. Baton, A.M., United 

 States ; G. J. Smith, Esq., J. P., Middlesex ; Rev. C. H. Stileman, 

 Surrey ; Rev. A. Sloman, M.A., Cheshire; Rev. R. Towers, Middlesex ; 

 Rev. C. C. Waller, A.B., Canada ; Rev. S. M. Zweemer, M.A., Persia. 



The following paper was then read by the author : — 



.LV ENQUIRY INTO THE FORMATION OF IIABFT 

 IN MAN. B.y Alfred T. Schofield, Esq., M.D., 

 M.R.C.S., &c., Chairman of Council Parents' National 

 Educational Union. 



I 



HAVE written this paper in some haste during great 



professional pressure, in ansAver to a request conveyed 



to me by the Hon. Secretary to this Society; and I feel some 

 apology is needed, not only for its imperfections, but for 

 the selection of a subject that is certain to raise many more 

 questions than it answers. And my apology is this : first, 

 that the subject is continually more or less before me in con- 

 nection with the education of children on the plan advocated 

 by the Parents' National Educational Union, with which I am 

 connected; and secondly, because, as will be seen, no question 

 is of greater importance in the formation of character, or has 

 a greater bearing on the advancement of the race. 



The subject is one involved in difficulty, lying as it does on 

 the borderland of the unknown, and touching the great ques- 

 tions of mind and brain action. I nuist therefore be excused 

 if I am found expressing the movements of the one in terms 

 applicable to the other, or in any other way using words 

 coined for matter with reference to that wliich is immaterial. 

 * 1st of 1894 Session. 



