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Spencer Gray, M.A., India ; Rev. J. R. Longley Hall, Palest'ne ; 

 Rev. R. C. Hallowes, Ireland ; Rev. J. W. Hodgkinson, Glasgow ; 

 Rev. J. Hudson, M.A., Chillingham ; Rev. Canon Courtenay Moore, 

 Ireland ; Rev. S. D. McConnell, M.A., D.D., U.S.A. ; Rev. G. H. 

 Rouse, LL.B., India ; Rev. J. Redman, India ; Rev. T. L. F. Stack, 

 B.D., Ireland; Rev. R. Shann, M.A, Camb., Hertfordshire; Rev. 

 E. J. Tyser, M.A., Yorks ; Rev. W. Wace, M.A., Camb., India ; Rev. 

 A. B. W. Whatton, M.A., London ; Rev. J. Wilkie, India ; Rev. E. 

 W. Wilson, London ; Mrs. E. M. Hutchinson, Surrey ; St. John's, 

 New Brunswick Public Library, Canada. 



Also the presentation of the following works to the Library : — 



" Proceedings of the Royal Society " From the same. 



" Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society " „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society " „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society " „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute " „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal Institution " „ 



''Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy" „ 



"Proceedings of the Royal United Service Institution" ,, 



" Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada " „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales " „ 



" Proceedings of the Geological Society " „ 



" Proceedings of the Society of Arts " „ 

 Also the Proceedings of many Colonial and Foreign Societies. 



The following Paper was then read by the Author : — 



FROM REFLEX ACTION TO VOLITION. By Dr. 



Alex Hill, Master of Downing College, Cambridge. 



AN anatomist as such has no affair with the analysis of 

 mental processes. My professional work consists in 

 attempts to understand the structural relations of the several 

 parts of the central nervous system ; to give, what is very 

 far from complete as yet, an account of the mechanism 

 by which thought is produced ; not to explain its mode of 

 working. Still it is impossible for any one who is constantly 

 occupied in the study of the Brain to avoid speculating as to 

 the way in which it does its work. Feeling, emotion, thought, 

 all the manifold phenomena of mind-life are but the products 

 of the brain's activity ; how far does a study of the apparatus 

 in which they are produced help us to classify these phe- 

 nomena ? How far does a subjective analysis of the phe- 

 nomena help us to understand the Construction of the 



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