ANNUAL MEETING. 



In this paper Dr. Eells has sought to gather the results of 

 the researches of all explorers and inquirers, and has shown that 

 in no case was a people found that did not possess some belief in a 

 Deity and practise some form of worship. 

 Monday, April 1. — Eemarks — on Professor Huxley's, F.E.S., Address 

 on the " Past and the Present," in reference to the doctrine of Evolu- 

 tion — by Professors E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., J. Cleland, F.R.S., 

 Duns, F.RS.E., Parker, Ph.D., Rev. G. F. Whidborne, F.G.S., Mr. 

 J. W. Slater, F.E.S., F.C.S., with a communication from Sir J. W. 

 Dawson, F.R.S. 



The tendency of the remarks was to show that all naturalists 

 admit that Evolution as a working hypothesis has, as yet, proved 

 insufficient to account for Man's place in Nature ; and that even 

 Professor Huxley himself confessed to "mutual contradictions 

 and intrinsic weaknesses " in the Darwinian theory of natural 

 selection. 

 Monday, April 8. — On "Theosophy." By the Rev. R. Collins, M.A. 



This erroneous system, first propagated in India, having spread 



of late, both at home and abroad, and especially among the less 



educated, it was felt desirable that the system should be analysed. 



Monday, May 6. — 1. "The Physical Characters and Affinities of the 



Guanches or Extinct People of the Canary Islands," illustrated by 



specimens in the Peter Redpath Museum of McGill University. By 



Sir J. William Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S. 



2. " On the supposed Missing Link." By Professor Hull, LL.D., 

 F.RS. 



In dealing with the latter subject it was shown that all known 

 scientific evidence demonstrated that in no case had a so-called 

 missing link proved to be other than a human being with a lesser 

 developed brain than usual. 

 Monday, May 20. — "The Changes in the Mediterranean which have led 

 to a community of some forms of life in the African Rivers and the 

 Jordanic Basin." By Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Monday, June 17. — "The crossing of the Red Sea," being light obtained 

 on this subject during a Government survey in Egypt lately carried 

 out, by M.-General A. B. Tulloch, R.E^ C.B., C.M.G. 



Also, communications throwing light on ancient trade routes 

 between the East and West of Asia by land and sea. 

 Thursday, July 25. — The Annual Address. "On the Perception of 

 Light." By the President, Sir George G. Stokes, Bart., F.R.S. 

 (By kind permission at the House of the Society of Arts.) 



Publications. 



11. The twenty-eiglith volume of Transactions is now in 

 course of pablication. 



From time to time the Members of the Institute and others 

 have expressed their high sense of the value of the Trans- 

 actions of the Institute, inasmuch as they contained not the 

 opinions of any one person only, hut of many, resident in various 

 and even distant parts of the world. That a system like this 

 carried on by a competent body or Society gives a value to 



