CONTENTS. 



Map to Illustrate Paper by MAJOR<iE>fERAL Tulloch, RE., 



C.B., C.M.G Frontispiece. 



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Ordinary Meeting 1 



On the Religious Ideas of the Babylonians ... 1 



Discussion, Communications and Speeches from Colonel C. 



R. Conder, LL.D. ; Rev. A. Lowy, LL.D. ; and others 28 



" Some Annotations." By Professor Fritz Hommel, Ph.D. 34 



Ordinary Meeting 39 



Items of Chinese Ethics and Philosophy. By Surgeon-General 



C. A. Gordon, C.B., Q.H.P 39 



Discussion. Remarks by Sir Thomas F. Wade, G.C.M.G., 



K.C.B. ; and others 74 



Annual Meeting. The Twenty-Seventh Report 79 



The Annual Address. — On the Luminiferous Ether. By Sir G. 



Gabriel Stokes, Bart., F.R.S., the President 89 



Speeches by^ 



His Excellency the Hon. T. F. Bayard, United States 



Ambassador. 

 Sir H. Barkly, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 Sir J. Fayrer, KC.S.L, F.R.S. 

 Admiral H. D. Grant, C.B., R.N. 

 Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Canon Girdlestone, M.A. ; and 

 Mr. a. McArthur 100 



Ordinary Mebtino 103 



