ANNUAL MEETING. O 



4. Biblical. 

 1. "On Some Diseases mentioned in the Bible." By Dr. Thomas 

 Chaplin. 



5. Biological. 



1. " Adaptation and Selection in Nature and Their Bearing on the 



Evidence of Design." By Dr. Walter Kidd, F.Z.S. 



2. " Water Essential to all Life." By Professor Lionel Beale, F.R.S. 



6. Science and Religion. 

 1. "Modifications in the Idea of God produced by Modern Thought 



and Scientific Discovery." By Rev. Chancellor Lias, M. A-. 

 The "Annual Address," by Major-Gen. Sir C. W. Wilson, 



R.E., K.C.M.G., F.R.S., on "The Water Supply of Jerusalem." 



7. The Journal of Transactions. 



The thirty-third volume of the Journal of Transactionsy 

 containing as it did a series of papers of more than ordinary 

 number and interest, appears to have given much gratifica- 

 tion to the Members and Associates. Assurances of such 

 appreciation have been frequently received, of which the 

 following from two esteemed supporters may be considered 

 as examples. The first is from Herr F. W. Lonnbeck, 

 Stockholm, dated May 7, 1902. When sending an order 

 for Vols. 24 to 80 inclusive, in all seven Volumes of the 

 Transactions, he adds : — 



" The papers contained in this valuable publication I often find very 

 helpful in my work of fighting the critics and sceptics by supplying 

 fresh and reliable evidence on points under debate. Even now I am 

 engaged in public controversy with two Swedish scholars about the 

 great Ice Age. One of them had maintained on a public occasion, when 

 lecturing upon the subject of the earlier traces of man in Europe, that 

 man had existed ages before the Glacial Epoch, ' certainly hundreds of 

 thousands, probably millions of years ago — and in Sweden at least 

 12,000 years ago.' Replying to this mad talk I have also cited your own 

 views as to the post-Glacial appearance of man in Europe, and Mr. Warren 

 Upham's remarks on the length of the post-Glacial time."* 



The second is from Sgr. Chev. W. Jervis, F.G.S., Luserna 

 San Giovanni, 2(5 April, 1902, late Director of the Royal 

 Museum at Turin, in which he says : — 



" It is only this month, during the continual rainy days in the Alps, 

 where I am come for a short time, that I have had a moment's time to 

 read Vol. XXXIII of the Tmyisactions of the Victoria Institute. I am 

 deeply impressed by the very high class of the papers read there, from 

 many of which I have learned a great deal, and with the statements 

 expressed, in the greater part of which I fully concur, or consider to be 



* "Time Divisions of the Ice Age," by Warren LTpham, M.A., Trans. 

 Vict. Inst., Vol. XXXIII, p. 409. 



