CONTENTS.-No. CXXI. 



JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS. 



PAGK 



Annual Meeting. The Thirty-first Report .... 1 



The Annual Address. The Age of the Earth as an Abode 



Fitted for Life. By the Rt. Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O. 11 



Speeches by — 



The Rt. Hon. Earl Halsbury, F.R.S., Lord 



Chancellor 36 



Sir G. Stokes, Bart., President. 

 Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., F.R.S. 

 Sir Sidney G. A. Shippard, G.C.M.G. 

 Captain E. W. Creak, R.N., F.R.S. 



Lord Kelvin on Design in Nature 38 



Where is Mount Sinai? By Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S. 



(With a Map and Sketches) 39 



The Discussion. Remarks by- 

 Sir C. W. Wilson, R.E., K.C.M.G., K.C.B., and 



Others .... 48 



Professor A. H. Sayce, D.D., in Reply. 



Communications Received 51 



Intermediate Meeting ... .... .... .... .... .... .... 56 



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

 the various views expressed at its meetings. 



