ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 David Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S., ix the Chair. 



Tlie Miimtes of last Meeting were read and the following Elections 

 took place : — 



Member : — C. R. N. Mackie, Esq., Devonshire. 



Associates : — G. A. Gutch, Esq., C.E., London ; Mrs. S. C. Kemble, 

 Wilts. 



Tlie following paper was then read by the author : — 



CREATION OR EVOLUTIOX. By Walter Kidd, Esq., 



M.D., F.Z.S. 



SEVENTEEN years have passed since a leading reviewf 

 gave the place of honour to an able and severe 

 attack upon " The Gospel of Evolution " by Dr. Charles 

 Elam. The attitude of the evolutionists of 1880 was more 

 calculated to alarm their opponents, then represented 

 by the majority of educated people, than is the case 

 at the present time ; and notwithstanding the truly vast 

 amount of investigation which has proceeded from the 

 evolutionary school of biologists, accompanied by harangues 

 in sufficiently menacing tones, the noise of battle grows fainter 

 and might be mistaken for the distant hum of a united 

 camp. Indeed a notable illustration of the better feeling 

 which prevails took place the year before last, which may well 

 be likened to that honourable incident in the great battle of 

 Saratoga, when, as the body of the gallant General Eraser, 

 in obedience to his dying request, Avas being carried to its 



* 15tli Marcli, 1H!)7. 



t Contemporary lievicic, Mav, 1S80. 



