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10. Meetings. 



Monday, December 1. — "On the Eecency of the Close of the Glacial 

 Epochin England and Wales." By D. Mackintosh, 

 F.G.S. 



Monday, January 5. — " The Religion of the Aboriginal Tribes of India." 

 By Prof. J. Avery, Bowdoin College, United 

 States, 



Monday, January 19. — Paper, " Historical Evidences of the Abramic 

 Migration." By W. St. C. Boscawen. 



Monday, February 2. — "The Evolution of Savages by Degradation." 

 By the Rev. F. A. Allen. 



Monday, February 16.— "The Evolution of Religion." By W. R. 

 Blackett, M.A. 



Monday, March 2.—" Was Primeval Man a Savage ?" By J. Hassell. 



Monday, March 16. — "On the Relation of Fossil Botany to Theories of 

 Evolution." By W. P. James. Communications 

 from Sir R. Owen, F.R.S., Professor W. Car- 

 ruthers, F.R.S., F.L.S., Dr. J. Braxton Hicks. 

 M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



Monday, April 13. — " Human Responsibility." By Rev, G. Blencowe. 



Monday, April 20. — " Some Characteristics of Primitive Religions." By 

 Rev. R. Collins, M.A. 



Monday, May 4. — " The Theory of Natural Selection and the Theory of 

 Design." By Professor Duns, D.D., F.R.S.E., 

 Neio Coll., Edinburgh, Pres. of the Royal Phys. 

 Sac. Edin. 



Monday, May 18. — " On the Worship and Traditions of the Aborigines 

 of America." By the Rev. M. Eells, M.A. 



Thursday, June 18. — "Egypt : Physical, Historical, Literary, and Social." 

 {Anniversary). By Rev. J. L. Porter, D.D., D.C.L., President of 



Queen^s College, Belfast. Also, an Address "on the 

 Progress of Science." By Professor G. G. Stokes, 

 F.R.S.. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at 

 Cambridge University (At the Society of Arts' 

 House). 



The Journal. 



11. The Eighteenth Volume of the Journal of Transactions 

 has been issued. Like the previous one, it contains many- 

 papers and communications from those whose names and 

 scientific researches are a sure guarantee for the "full and 

 impartial^' character of their investigations. Among the 

 subjects of special interest treated of in this Volume is 

 that of the "Relation of Buddhism to Christianity.''^ The 

 writings of Buusen, Carpenter, and others upon this 

 subject having again raised this question, it was deemed 

 desirable that the Institute should take such steps as would 

 make the inquiry as thorough as the researches of late years 

 admitted. These steps, first initiated in 1880, have resulted 

 in the inquiry now published, in which the evidence is given 

 of several whose study of the subject in India during a long 



