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ORDINARY MEETING, May 7, 1883. 



H. Cadman Jones, Esq., in the Chair. 



The minutes of the hist meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following elections took place : — 



Associates :— The Eight Rev. J. W. Beckwith, D.D., Bishop of Georgia, 

 United States ; the Eev. E. F. Burr, D.D., United States ; Rev. W. A. 

 Candler, United States ; Rev. E. A. Hildreth, United States ; G. 

 Watson James, Esq., United States ; J. P. Maclean, Esq., United States ; 

 Eev. T. M. B. Pnterson, Scotland ; Eev. Professor E. B. Thwing, United 

 States ; Prof. H. Shaler Williams, United States ; Rev. H. Wood- 

 ward, Liverpool ; Eev. W. F. White, Stonehouse ; Miss Beales, London. 



Also the presentation of the following works for the library : — ■ 



" Proceedings of American Geographical Society." From the same. 



" American Antiquarian." From the Editor. 



" Mound Builders," by J. P. Maclean. From the same. 



Two Works from the library of the late W. H. Ince, Esq. From Mrs. Lice. 



The following Paper was then read by the Author : — 



Dr. J. L. Porter. — Some years ago Professor Tyndall delivered the opening 

 address at a meeting of the British Association, held at Belfast, and it pro- 

 duced a great and serious effect, especially on the working classes of Belfast, 

 and also on the public generally throughout the north of Ireland. I had an 

 opportunity of meeting with a very large number of students in a college 

 containing nearly six hundred, and I found that fully one-third of them 

 had been more or less affected by the address in question. This will explain, 

 to some extent, the origin of the paper I am now about to read. 



THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE NOT OPPOSED TO 

 THE FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS OF REVELATION. 

 — By the Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., LL.D., President of 

 Queen^s College, Belfast, 



THE controversy between Science and Revelation will pro- 

 bably go on indefinitely. Science is advancing with 

 rapid strides, new facts are being discovered, new truths 

 developed, and new theories in still gi'eater numbers are 

 being propounded. Biblical criticism also is not stationary. 

 Sounder canons of exegesis are now adopted ; while researches 

 among the monuments and records of Egypt, Assyria, Baby- 

 lonia, and Palestine, are year after year shedding fresh light 

 upon the languages, history, literature, and teachings of the 



