ANNUAL MEETING. 



Monday, April 5. — " Problems of Aboriginal Art in Australia," by the 

 Et. Eev. The Bishoji of Ballarat. 



With leference to the evidence of the presence among the 

 aborigines of Australia at an early period of the people of a higher 

 civilization. 

 Monday, April 12 {instead of Easter Monday). — "The Scope of Mind," 

 by A. T. ScHOFiELD, Esq., M.D. 



A subject also carefully considered by Professor Cleland, F.R.S., 



Professor Jjionel Beale, F.R.S., and other members of the Institute. 



Monday, May 3. — " NiiFer," the last excavations there ; with readings 



of inscriptions of histoiical importance,- by Theo. G. Pinches, Esq., 



M.R.A.S. Lecture. 



In regard to a civilization believed to be prior to the Baby- 

 lonian, explained by the lesearches of Mr. Theo. G. Pinches, 

 M.R.A.S., Professor Hilpreeht, Professor Hommel, and other 

 members of the Institute. 

 Monday, May 17.— "The Tamil Caiva Sage," by Eev. G. U. Pope, D.D. 

 The author gave a summary of ancient Indian recoids bearing 

 on the history and times of this early "foe of the Buddhists." His 

 researches promise to be of special value to those seeking to 

 supjDlant error and introduce a purer civilization. 

 "Wednesday, June 2. — The Annual Meeting, an address by the Eight 

 Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O., F.E.S., "On the Age of the Earth as 

 an Abode fitted for Life," at the Society of Arts House. 



Publications. 



The twenty-niiitli volume of the Transactions will shortly 

 be in the hands of the members. 



It was noted last year that from time to time members of 

 the Institute and others have expressed their high sense of 

 the value of the Transactions of tlie Institute, inasmuch as 

 they contained not the opinions of any one single individual, 

 hut those of many dllicfent students of the subjects, resident in 

 various and even distant parts of the world, whose studies 

 have lain in the direction of the subjects taken up. That a 

 system hke this, carried on by a comyietent body or Society, 

 gives a value to the treatment of the several subjects beyond 

 that Avhich any individual author could give, is evident. 



The Journal, which contains the combined opinions of 

 many minds on important subjects — and which bias so long 

 been referred to by home and foreign members, and others 

 as "just what is wanted" — continues to be used by members 

 and others in many countries to translate from, or as a basis 

 for lectures. (The office correspondence in regard to matter 

 for lectures, &c., increases botli in volume and importance.) 



In no year has the Institute received a greater number of 

 congratulatory letters from home, colonial and American 

 members on its usefulness, amongst them an official letter 



