CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

 Map to Accompany M. Maspero's Paper Frontispiece. 



Annual Meeting. The Twenty-Sixth Report 1 



Speeches by Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., F.R.S., Sir Henry 

 Barkly, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., F.R.S., Professor E. Hull, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., and the Ven. Archdeacon Thornton, D.D. 9 



The Annual Address. By the Eight Hon. Lord Halsbury .... 12 



Speeches by Sir Frederick Young, K.C.M.G., Sir G. 

 Buchanan, M.D., F.R.S., General R. F. Copland-Craw- 

 ford, R.A., F.G.S., AND Surgeon-General C. A. Gordon, 

 C.B 12 



Ordinary Meeting 23 



Principles of Rank among Animals. By Professor Henry 

 Webster Parker, Ph.D., Prof, of Nat. Hist. Iowa Coll., 

 Grinnel * 23 



Discussion. Remarks by Rev. Professor Duns, F.R.S. E., 



Rev. G. F. Wiiidborne, M.A., F.G.S., and others .... 33 



The Author's Reply 40 



Note on the Recession of Niagara Falls 41 



Ordinary Meeting 43 



How the Waters of the Ocean became Salt. By Professor 

 E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S 43 



Communications and Speeches by — 



(The late) Professor John Tyndall, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. 55 



Professor Joseph Prestwich, D.C.L., F.R.S., and others 55 



Ordinary Meeting 62 



The List of Sheshonq at Karnak. By Professor G. Maspero 

 (French), with a Map 63 



