REPORT. 5 
Monpay, June 4.—Annual Address. ‘ Mystical Buddhism in connexion 
with the Yoga system of Philosophy.” By Sir Monrer Monter- 
WiuurAms, Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University. The 
President in the chair. Speeches by the Bishop of Dunedin, Sir H. 
Barkly, K.C.B., F.R.S., Sir J, Risdon Bennett, F.R.S., Professor 
H, W. Bristow, F.8.8. (Senior Director, Geological Survey of Great 
Britain), &c. 
[Anzual Meeting held at the House of the Society of Arts.] 
Monpay, June 18.—*‘ On the Botany of Syria.” By Professor G. E. Post, 
M.A., M.D., an important paper, containing the results of several 
years’ careful exploration,—prepared by special request. 
The Meetings during the Sessions have been well attended. 
The Journal. 
13. The Twenty-first Volume of the Journal of Transactions 
has been issued. It contains many papers and communica- 
tions from those whose names and the value of whose scientific 
researches are a sure guarantee for the “ full and impartial ”’ 
character of their investigations (Object 1), and for the manner 
in which they have “considered the mutual bearing 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” (Object 3). 
Such work, if carried on, must tend to the advantage of 
science, and to a right interpretation of the book of nature, 
and we may well believe that when the truth in regard to that 
book is fully understood, it will not be found to clash with 
that other book—the book of Revelation.* 
14. On some Uses made of the Institute by its Members.— 
Last year it was pointed out that to many Members their 
connexion with the Institute had proved more than a mere 
personal advantage to themselves. They found that the 
Institute met a need felt both at home and abroad, especially 
in our Colonies and India, where the want of a true apprecia- 
tion of the actual results of scientific inquiry had led many, 
especially the less informed, to credit such statements as 
that “‘ Science and Philosophy were alike opposed to Revela- 
tion,’ and that “the progress of Science had given a death- 
blow to all belief in the truth of the Bible.” (As one 
result of this, the Bible is a forbidden book in more than 
one Board School at home and in our Colonies.) And they 
had sought to make use of the Institute’s investigations 
to dispel such erroneous ideas as those referred to, by 
using the papers in the Journal as lectures, or to lecture from, 
* One University has begun to use the papers in the Journal as class- 
books. 
