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MEETINGS. 



The meetings of the Institute have been well attended. 



The subjects taken up during the session have been : — 



Monday, December 4, 1899. — " Pictorial Art among the Australian 



Aborigines." By E. H, Mathews, L.S. Illustrated. 

 Monday, January 1, 1900. — "Some Eemarks on Sub-oceanic Terraces 

 and River Valleys, especially off the Coast of France." By Professor 

 Ti LORLEY, F.G.S. 



In which Professor Lobley confirmed the researches and 



deductions of Professor E. Hull in his paper read last year on 



those evidences of great physical changes in past times. 



Monday, January 15. — Notes on some important subjects brought 



before the Congress of Orientalists, meeting at Rome in 1899. By 



Theo. G. Pinches, Esq., M.R.A.S. 



Mr. Pinches reviewed much valuable matter brought before this 

 Congress to which he was the Institute's accredited delegate. 

 Monday, February 5; — An address on "Moab and Edom." Bv Major- 

 General Sir C. W. Wilson, K.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S., R.E. 

 Illustrated. {The first of a set of Special Subjects.) 

 Monday, February 19. — " Sub-oceanic River Valleys of the West 

 African Continent and of the Mediterranean Basin." By Professor 

 E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S. 



In which the author showed that the Congo River A^alley was 



continued to a great depth under the ocean, as in the case of the 



I'iver valleys of Western Europe. Dr. Hull's researches lead to an 



exijlanation of the cause of the Glacial Epoch. 



Monday, March 5. — J. Zimmerman, D.D., on " The Coins of the 



Ancients." 



In which the author pointed to many instances of the value of 



coins in throwing light on historical facts. 



Monday, March 19. — " Springs of Character." By A. T. Schofield, M.D. 



Monday, April 2. — "Thalassographical Notes on the North Sea." By 



Cavaliere Jervis, F.G.S. , Royal Museum, Turin (following on Dr. 



Hull's paper on " The Submerged Teri'aces and River Valleys 



l)ordering on the British Isles "). {See " Transactions," vol. xxx.) 



This pa])er atJbrded instances of the evidence of those influences 

 which brouglit about physical changes. 

 Monday, April 9.— (Monday, 16th, l)eiug Easter Monday) "Points in 

 Egyptian History." By Rev. F. A. Walker, D.D., F.L.S. 



A valuable attemjit to clear up points of high interest in 

 Egyjjtian liistorv. 

 Monday, May 7.— On "The Being of God." By the Von. W. 



Macdonald Sinclair, D.D. 

 Monday, May 21.— Preb. H. Wage, D.D., on "Ethics and Religion" 

 (a paper on an aspect of modern thought.) 



