PREFACE, 
\HE Twenty-Fourth Volume of the Journal of the Transac- 
tions of the VICTORIA INSTITUTE is now issued. It 
contains papers by the following authors:—Major CLAUDE 
REIGNIER CONDER, R.E., D.C.L., “On the Canaanites.” 
The Rev. H. J. CLARKE, “On the Science of Rectitude 
as Distinct from Expedience.” Dr. CUTHBERT COLLINGWooD, 
M.A., B.M. Oxon., M.R.C.P., “On Instinct and Reason.” Dr. 
H. B. Guppy, “On the Dispersal of Plants, as iliustrated by 
the Flora of the Keeling or Cocos Islands,” a paper of much 
interest, as has been pointed out by Professor T. RUPERT 
JONES, F.R.S.; Mr. JonN Murray (of the Challenger Expe- 
dition); and others.* Professor Epwarp Huu, LL.D., 
F.R.S., two valuable papers, one entitled “God in Nature 
some theistic arguments drawn from Natural Phenomena”: 
the other “ A Sketch of the Geological History of Egypt and 
the Nile Valley,” being a careful account of the Physical 
Structure and Physical History of Egypt; Professor Hull’s 
explorations and researches have added to our exact know- 
ledge of one of those countries forming the background of 
* The present volume contains the results of the Authors’ investi- 
gations up to the present time July, 1891. 
