ANNUAL MEETING. O 



Monday, February 16, 1891. — " On Agnosticism and its Tributaries." 

 By Professor H. Langhorne Orchard, M.A., B.Sc. 



Monday, March 2.— "Deontology." By Bev. H. J. Clarke. 



Monday, March 16.— "On the Beality of the Self." By W. L. 

 Courtney, Esq., M.A., LL.D. 



Monday, April 6. — " On the apparent Cruelty of Nature." By Bev. 

 Theodore Wood, F.E.S. 



Monday April 20. — " Notes on Philosophy and Medical Knowledge in 

 Ancient India." Surg. -Gen. Gordon, M.D., C.B., Q.H.P. 



Monday, May 4. — "On the Enigmatical Flint Bodies bearing the name 

 Paramoudia." By Edward Charlesworth, Esq., F.G.S. 



Monday, May 11. — " Notes on Useful and Ornamental Stones of Ancient 

 Egypt." By Sir J. Wm. Dawson, C.M.G., F.R.S. 



Thursday, June 25. — Annual Meeting held at the Society of Arts House — 

 Address by Monsieur E. Naville " On the Boute of the Exodus," 

 and his researches in regard thereto. 



The meetings have been fully attended this session, and 

 the advantages of the Institute's new premises have greatly 

 added to the general comfort. 



Publications. 



13. The Twenty-Fourth Volume of the Transactions is 

 now about to be published ; a brief delay in its issue has 

 arisen through the illness of some whose writings it contains. 

 It includes papers and communications of much import- 

 ance, including a translation of a recent address by Professor 

 Virchow, in which he summarised the results of the 

 researches of European Anthropologists during the last 

 twenty years, in regard to Man and his place in Nature. 

 The other papers, and the discussions thereon, are by 

 men whose names and the value of whose scientific 

 researches are a guarantee for the " full and impartial " 

 character of their investigations, and for the manner in which 

 they have considered the mutual bearing of the various 

 scientific conclusions arrived at in the several distinct 

 branches into which Science is now divided, in order to get 

 rid of contradictions and conflicting hypotheses, and thus 

 promote the advancement of true Science. 



The arrangements whereby foreign supporters may not 

 only contribute papers, but take a part in the discussions by 

 communicating opinions in MS., have added much to the 

 value of the Transactions, and have led to a marked increase 

 both in the number of the Institute's Foreign and Colonial 



