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INTERMEDIATE MEETING, Febeuary 17, 1873. 



The Rev. J. H. Titcomb, M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last meeting were read and contirnied, and the fol- 

 lowing Elections were announced : — 



Member : — ^ ^ 



The Eev. G. Oalthorp, M.A., Vicar of St. Augustine's and Lecturer at 

 St. John's Hall, 8, Highbury Quarant. 



Associates : — 



AVilliaui Bodkin, Esq., M.D., Chelmsford. 

 Miss Frances Locock (Life), Leaside, Kingswood Road, Dulwich. 

 Rev. G. Roberts, Tliorniaby Vicarage, Stockton-on-Tees. 

 Rev. R. Tapson, Grossway Place, Combe Down, Bath. 



Also, the presentation of the following Work for the Library : — 

 " Transactions of the Royal Society." Part 141. 



Fruni the h^ocidy. 



The following paper" was then read by the Author 



SCIENTIFIC FACTS AND CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE. 

 By John Eliot Howard, Esq., E.L.S., E.R.M.S., 

 E.R.H.S , Memb. Pharm. Soc. and Botanical Soc. of 

 France, &c* 



Part 1. — [a] The Atomic Theory. 



AS the primary object of the Victoria Institute is f to 

 defend the revealed truth of Holy Scripture against oppo- 

 sitions arising not from Teal science, but from pseudo-science,^^ 

 it seems to become a duty resting on each individual member 



* Circumstances rendered it necessary for the Council to fix the reading 

 of this Paper at an intermediate meeting. [Ed.] 



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