Xll PREFACE. 



Professors J. Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., Logan Lobley, F.G.S., 

 Joseph Brown, Esq., C.B., F.G.S., and others. "On speci- 

 mens in the Peter Redpath Museum of McGill University, illus- 

 trating the physical characters and affinities of the Guanches, 

 an extinct people of the Canary Islands," by Sir J. William 

 Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S., with remarks by Professor Putnam, 

 Professor Cleland, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. Lambert of Cairo, and 

 others. " On Miracles and Science," by the Rev. Chancellor 

 J. J. Lias, M.A. To all who have taken part in the work 

 done the best thanks of the Members and Associates are 

 due ; they have contributed to make the Journal, not a mere 

 record of the formal proceedings of meetings, but of the well- 

 considered opinions of the many both at home and abroad 

 who have studied the subjects taken up. 



FEANCIS W. H. PETEJE, Capt., 



Hon. Sec. and Editor. 

 1897. 



