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other men, just as surely as it would forbid us to infer the existence 

 of God from His natural operations. 



I again thank you for the kind reception accorded to my Paper. 



The President. — Before the meeting- separates, I wish, to say 

 that if I did not join in the discussion myself, it was not from any 

 idea of the obscurity of the Paper, except in so far as the subject 

 itself is necessarily a somewhat obscure one, but because I thought 

 there were others present who were better able to deal with a 

 question of that kind than myself. Therefore I hope the author 

 will not understand that it implied any disparagement of his 

 Paper. 



The Meeting then adjourned. 



ORDINARY MEETING.* 



The Rev. Prebendary R. Thornton, D.D., Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following Elections were announced : — 



Associates : — General C. W. Darling, Cor. See. of the Oneida Historical 

 Soc, Utica, United States; Rev. C. W. Gushing, A.M , D.D., United 

 States; Eev. J. M. Mello, M.A., F.G.S., England. 



* March 21, 1892. The Proceedings at this Meeting are not yet ready 

 for publication. 



