ANNUAL MEETING. 5 
Monpay, Jone 3.—Extra Meeting.—1. On “ The Butterflies and Moths of 
Africa.” By W. F. Kirpy, Esq. (British Museum). 
2. “Niobe, or Neferura-Urmaa,” the daughter of the King of the — 
Hittites. By the Rev. F. A. Watxer, D.D., F.L.S. 
Mowpay, Juty 1.—Annual Meeting at the House of the Society of Arts: 
Address “on the Cuneiform Inscriptions at Tel el-Amarna,” by 
Professor A. H. Saycn, LL.D., Dep. Professor of Comparative Philology 
to the University of Oxford. 
Monpay, Juty 5.—Second Extra Meeting, at the House of the Society of 
Arts: Paper by M. Epovarp Naviuuz, “on the Historical Results 
of the Excavations at Bubastis,” &c. 
Publications. 
11. The Twenty-second volume of the Journal of Trans- 
actions has now beenissued.* It contains Dr. Post’s complete 
review of the Botanical Geography of Syria and Palestine, M. 
Maspero’s Analysis of the Karnac Lists, and their bearing on 
Ancient, and especially Sacred, History. It also contains 
papers and communications in regard to the latest discoveries 
in respect to the antiquity of man and many other important 
questions of science and philosophy. It is believed that the 
volume will be found to bear its testimony to the steady 
progress of the Institute’s work, and the impartial character 
of its investigations, which must tend to the advantage of 
science, and to a right interpretation of the book of Nature. 
12. The Journal is still used by members and others to lec- 
ture from, and Public Libraries in various parts of the world 
subscribe for it. Such use of the Transactions helps to carry 
out the Institute’s high objects, and also to make them more 
generally known.t 
* A slightly larger type has now been selected for the discussions 
and notes. 
+ On some Uses made of the Institute by its Members.—“ Last year 
it was pointed out that to many Members their connexion with the 
Institute had proved more than a mere personal advantage to them- 
selves; as they found that the Institute meta need felt both at home 
and abroad, especially in our Colonies and India, where the want of 
a true appreciation of the actual results of scientific inquiry has led 
many, especially the less informed, to credit such statements as that 
‘Science and Philosophy were alike opposed to Revelation,’ and that 
‘the progress of Science has given a death-blow to all belief in the 
truth of the Bible.’ (As one result of this, the Bible is a forbidden 
book in more than one Board School at home and in our Colonies.) 
And they had sought to make use of the Institute’s investigations to 
dispel such erroneous ideas as those referred to, by using the papers 
in the Journal as lectures, or to lecture from, in their respective 
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