518th ordinary GE^nTERAL MEETING. 



MONDAY, MAY 8th, 1911, 4.30 r.M. 



David Howard, Esq., D.L., ix the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following elections of Associates were announced : — 



William Weller, Esq. ; Bishop Hasse ; Dr. H. M. Bishop. 



The Ceiairmax, in introducing Professor Eoget, Member of the 

 Institute, to the Meeting, said how cordially the English members 

 welcomed the presence of a foreign Member. So many of the works 

 on science and religion by French-speaking students were held in 

 admiration by Englishmen, and they rejoiced to have one amongst them 

 to-day representing the exquisite clearness of French thought and the 

 French language. 



Professor Eoget then read his paper on 



A LIFFS CONTRIBUTION TO THE HARMONY OF 

 CHRISTIANITY, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 



ERNEST NAVILLE, an honorary member of this Institute, 

 was born in 1816, and left this world in 1909, being 

 nearer five score than four score years of age. He was the son 

 of Francois Naville, a pastor descended from the most ancient 

 Geneva stock, and well known in the history of education by 

 his Institute at Vernier. With Father Girard at Fribouro;, 

 Madame Necker de Saussure in Geneva, and Fellenberg of 

 Berne, Eranqois Naville ranks high among Swiss educational 

 leaders, after Rousseau and Pestalozzi. 



In this, as in other lines of thought and kinds of work, 

 Ernest Naville was to follow in the footprints of his father. 

 If such a figure of speech were allowable, we might say of him 

 that while following the parental footprints in every direction 

 they went, he broadened and deepened them. 



He was brought up in the country, attended courses of Arts 

 and Divinity in the world- renowned Academy of Calvin, which 

 now, under the style of University of Geneva, throws forth a 

 notable, but lesser light. At that early time he struck the 

 attitude which was to be that of his whole life : that morals 



