CONTENTS.-No. CVIII. 



JOUENAL OP THE TRANSACTIONS. 



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Ordinary Meeting 263 



A Possible Cause for the Origin of the Tradition of the Flood. 



By Professor J. Prestwich, D.C.L,, F.E.S., &c 263 



Communication from Sir J. W. Dawson, C.M.G., F.E.S 285 



Discussion. Speeches by — 



Dr. Woodward, F.R.S., President of the Geological 



Society 286 



Sir H. Howorth, K.C.I.E., M.P., F.R.S 288 



Professor T. McK. Hughes, M.A., F.R.S 291 



Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.E.S 292 



Professor T. Eupert Jones, F.E.S., and others .... 293 



Communications from Admiral Grant, C.B. ; Eev. J. M. 

 Mello, M.A., F.G.S. ; Mr. Warren Upham, Asst. U.S. 

 Govt. Geologist, &c., &c ... 295 



The Author's Eeply 302 



Errata 305 



List of Members, &c. 



Objects and Eules. 



Contents of all the Volumes of the Journal. 



*^* The fnsititute's object being to investigate, it must not be held to endorse 

 the rarioKS views expressed at its meetings. 



