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ORDINARY MEETING, April 6, 1886. 



W. N. West, Esq., in the Chaie. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 

 lowing Election was announced : — 



Associate : — Miss M. H. Oust, London. 



Also the presentation of the following works for the Library : — 

 " Transactions of the Eoyal Society." Fro7n the mme. 



" Transactions of the Royal Geographical Society." „ 



" Transactions of the Eoyal Asiatic Society," „ 



" Transactions of the Philosophical Society of America." „ 



" Transactions of the United States Geological Survey." „ 



" Mr. Gladstone and Professor Huxley," by Eev. B. W. Savile. ,, 



" Present Day Tracts," Religious Tract Society. „ 

 "Origin, Habits, and DiflFusion of Cholera," by Sir J. Fayrer, 



K.O.S.L 

 " On the Vertical Range of Certain Fossil Species," by Pro- 

 fessor Claypole. „ 



The following paper was then read by Mr. H. Cadman Jones, M.A. : — 



18 THE ACCOUNT OF THE C BE ATI ON IN 

 GENESIS ONE OF A PARALLEL SERIES? By 

 W. P. James, Esq., M.A., F.L.S. 



[Few have taken a more earnest part in the work of the Institute than 

 Mr. W. P. James, F.L.S., and the following paper is the last of his many 

 valued contributions to the Proceedings of this Institute. As he passed 

 away shortly after completing the MS., the proof-sheets did not receive his 

 final revision.] 



1. XTIEW things are more remarkable than tlie spirit of 

 Jj research which is characteristic of our own times. 

 The same stirring nineteenth century, which has witnessed 

 novel and startling triumphs over the forces of Nature, has 

 also witnessed an astonishing revival of interest in the history 

 of antiquity. The sculptured stones and papyrus rolls of 

 Egypt, the inscribed tablets of Babylonia and Assyria, are no 

 longer silent. It would almost seem as if the intellect of a 



