4 ANNUAL MEETING. 



Meetings. 

 10. It was mentioned last year that the Council was speciallv 

 desirous that, so far as possible, no Member or Associate 

 wishing to take a part in considering the subjects brought 

 before the Institute, should be prevented by distance from 

 so doing, and to this end arrangements were made whereby 

 all those interested in the various subjects brought forward — 

 but unable in consequence of distance to be present at the 

 meetings — might, hy intimaling their loish, receive loroof copies of 

 the papers to he read, and send in any comments they might 

 see fit, within three months ; such comments being brought 

 before the Council with a view to being read at the Meetings, 

 and included in the discussion published after each paper in 

 the Journal. It will be remembered that in consequence of 

 the small attendance of members at the 8 o'clock meetings, 

 the home members were canvassed, and five-sixths being in 

 favour of the meetings being held at half-past four, that hour 

 was fixed. A great increase in the number of members 

 attending has been the result, and the value of the dis- 

 cussions has been proportionately increased. 



HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK MEETINGS. 



Monday, December 3, 1894. — "On Ancient Languages; being notes 

 upon the Geneva Orientalist Congress, with especial reference to 

 the work of the Semitic Section." By Theophilus G. Pinches, Esq., 

 Depai'tment of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the Brit. 

 Museum. 

 Monday, January 7, 1895. — " Notes on Physical Geology, the origin of 



earthquakes, &c." A Lecture, by Professor Lobley, F.G.S. 

 Monday, January 21. — "On the Botany of Australia, Fossil and 

 Contemporary." By the (late) Eev. Dr. Woolls, F.RS. (N.S.W.) 

 In considering this subject and its relation to the botany of 

 India and other countries, further light has been thrown on the 

 migration of both flora and fauna. Baron Sir F. von Mueller 

 and other distinguished Botanists contributed largely to the dis- 

 cussion. 

 Monday, February 4. — A Lecture by Dr. Gerard Smith, M.RC.S.E., 

 on Insect Anatomy (with notes in regard to the doctrine of 

 Evolution, &c.) The whole being illustrated by micro-photographs. 

 Monday, February 18. — On "The Evolution of the Natural and the 

 Artificial." By Alfred Taylor Schofield, Esq., M.D. 

 A pojiularly written and timely paper. 

 Monday, March 4. — "The Philosophy of Comte re-considered." By J. W. 

 Slater, F.C.S., F.E.S. 



It was deemed desii'able, considering the tendency of modern 

 thought, that this subject should be discussed. 

 Monday, March 18. — "The Worship and Traditions of the Aborigines of 

 the Islands of the Pacific Ocean." By Dr. M. Eells. Univ. of Pacific. 



