CONTENTS OF VOL. XVIII. 



Preface ix. 



JOURNAL OF TRANSACTIOxXS. 



Page 



Anxual General Meeting, June 25, 1883 i 



Seventeenth Annual Report 1 



Speeches 9 



Annual Address. Br the late Right Hon. the Lord O'Neill 14 



Speeches 32 



Ordinarv Meeting, May 7, 1883 36 



The Teaching of Science not opposed to the Fundamental 

 Truths of Revelation. By the Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., 



LL.D., Pre.sident OF Queen's College, Belfast ... ... 36 



Discussion 65 



Ordinary Meeting, December 3, 1883 71 



Paper ox " Recent Egyptological Research in its Biblical 



Relation." Br the Rev. H. G. Tomkins 72 



Communication from M. Naville 87 



Discussion 88 



Additional Communications, &,c 92 



"Recent Advances in Biblical Criticism and in His- 

 torical Discovery in relation to the Chrlstian Faith." 



By the Rev. H. G. Tomkins 92 



The Excavations at Pithom 95 



