CONTENTS-NO. LXXVIl. 



JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS. 



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ANNUAL Meeting, Junk 18, 1885 ... ... ... ... ... 1 



Kkfort ... ... .... ..• ... 1 



Bpeecues : — Special Address by 



Professor G. G. fcjTOKiiS, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., of Cam- 

 bridge University 10 



Annual Address — Egypt : Physical, Hisiorical, Literary, 

 AND Social. By the Eev. J. Leslie Porter, D.D., D.C.L., 

 President op Queen's College, Belfast ... 15 



Speeches 35 



Ordinary Meeting, May 4, 1885 37 



Paper on "The Theory of Natural Selection and the Theory 

 op Design." By Professor Duns, D.D., F.B.S.E., President 

 OF the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh 37 



Discussion ... '.., ... 58 



Communications : — 



From Sir Edmund S. Beckett, Bart., Q.C, LL.D. ... ... 58 



„ The Rev. Canon C. Popham Miles, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. 59 



The Author's Reply ... 60 



The InslitiUe's object being to investigate, it mud not be held to 

 endorse the various views tixpresi<ed at its Meetings. 



