505TH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 
MONDAY, MARCH 2ist, 1910, 4.30 P.M. 
Heywoop Smitu, Ese., M.A., M.D., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following elections were announced :— 
As Member, T. B. Bishop, Esq., 
As Associate, The Rev. S. H. Wilkinson, F.R.G.S., 
As Missionary Associate, The Rev. E. A. L. Moore. 
In the regrettable absence of the author the following paper was then 
read by his son, P. A. Irving, Esq., B.A. :— 
LIGHT, LUMINARIES AND LIFE; IN CONNECTION 
WITH THE GENESIS ACCOUNT OF CREATION, 
By Rev. A. Irvine, D.Sc., B.A. 
(Illustrated by lantern slices.) 
CONTENTS. 
§ L. Introduction. 
§ II. Some general points further considered :— 
(A) The Geocentric Conception of the Universe. 
(B) The “ Firmament.” 
S$ ILI. The Solar Earth. 
Note on “The Nucleate Origin of the Planets.” 
$ IV. Early Life on this Planet. 
§ V. The Birth of the Moon. 
[Vote on “ The Action of the Early Tides.”] 
§$ VI. Life in General. 
§ VII. Human Life and its ‘“time-age” on this Planet. 
I. INTRODUCTION. 
HIS paper being intended to be supplementary to my 
former paper,* on “Evolutionary Law in the Creation 
Story of Genesis,” a few references to that paper are called for 
by what has passed since in public controversy, more especially 
that which appeared in the Guardian newspaper in the autumn 
of 1907. Professor E. Hull was also good enough to bring 
that paper into prominence in the columns of the Church Family 
* See Trans. Vict. Inst., vol. xxxviii (1906). 
+ See the Guardian, Oct., Nov., Dec., 1907. 
