CONTENTS.-No. CXII. 



JOURNAL or THE TRANSACTIONS. 



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Ordinary Meeting 2 19 



On the Mechanical or Physical Conception of Nature. By 

 G. Macloskie, D.Sc, LL.D., Professor of Biology in 

 Princeton College 219 



Discussion. Remarks by — 



Sir George G. Stokes, Bart., F.R.S. 



G. B. Buckton, Esq., F.R.S. 



Professor J. H. Bernard, D D. 



A. T. ScHOFiELD, M.R.C.S,E. ; and others 232 



The Author's Reply ... 243 



Ordinary Meeting „ 246 



Ordtoary Meeting 247 



T)he Philosophy of Augusts Comte Reconsidered. By J. W. 



Slater, Esq., F.C.S., F.E.S 247 



Discussion by — 



D. Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S, 



J. Kennedy, Esq., B.C.S. ; and others 256 



fORlJiNARY Meeting 265 



Note on the Supposed Discovery of Remains belonging to an 

 Animal Intermediate between Man and the Ape. By 

 Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S. Illustrated 265 



Ordinary Meeting 267 



Xhe Passage of the Red Sea by the Israelites : Notes made 

 DURING a Military SuRVEr. By Majok-General A. B. 

 Tulloch, C.B., CM.G., &c, 267 



Map to Accompany the Same „.. ... Frontispiece. 



Discussion. Remarks by — 



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



Rev. a. Lowy, LL.D. ; and others 276 



The Author's Reply 280 



List of Members, &c. 



Objects and Rules. 



Contents of all the Volumes of the Journal. 



"^x.* The Institute's object being to investigate, it must not be held to endorse 

 the /various views expressed at its meetings. 



