ANNUAL MEETING. 



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Monday, January 18.— (Paper postponed by reason of the death of H.R.IL 



The Duke of Clarence and Avondale.) 

 Monday, February 1. — "The weak side of Natural SelectioD." By J. 



W. Slater, F.C.S., F.E.S. "A Brief Note on the eflPects of a recent 



Submarine Volcano." By Colonel Mackowen and Captain F. Petrie, 



F.G.S. 



Monday, February 15.—" Miracles and Science." By Rev. J. J. Lias, 

 M.A. 



Monday, March V. — "Serpent Worship and the Venomous Snakes of 



India." By Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.S. 

 Monday, March 21. — "Traditions and Traces of Eden in Heathen 



Mythology." By J . S. Phene, LL.D. 

 Monday, April 4. — " On the Philosophical Value of the Argument from 



Design." By Professor J. II. Bernard, D.D., of Trinity College, 



Dublin. 



Monday, April 11. — {Instead of I8th — Easter Monday.) — "On the Glacial 



Period and the Earth-movement Hypothesis." By Professor James 



Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., F.RS., &c. 

 Monday, May 2. — "On the Past and Present Water Supply of Jerusalem 



and of Palestine." By Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, R.E., K.C.B. 



K.C.M.G , D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. 

 Monday, May 16. — " On Primitive Man." By Rev. J. Magens Mello, 



M.A., with a supplementary Paper bv Sir J. William Dawson, 



C.M.G., F.R.S., &c. 

 Monday, June 20. — " On the Reality of Knowledge." By Joseph John 



Murphy, Esq. — A Note on some results of Egyptian Exploration 



during the past season. By Count Riamo de Hulst. 

 Monday, August 1. — Annual Meeting at the House of the Society of Arts. — 



Address by The Right Honourable Lord Halsbury, Lord High 



Chancellor. 



So successful a Session as the present has probably not 

 been held during any year since the Institute was founded. 

 The meetings have been specially well attended. The 

 improvements carried out by the Council in the introduction 

 of the electric light and the abolition of the use of gas in the 

 lecture room have added to the comfort of the Members. 



Publications, 



The Twenty-Fifth Volume of the Transactions is now 

 about to be pubhshed ; there has been a slight delay in its 

 issue on account of the illness of some whose writings it 

 includes. It contains, among other important papers, one 

 of much research on Islam, in the discussion of which many 

 who had long studied the subject took part. This paper will 

 probably be found as generally useful as the one on Buddhism 

 which attracted so much attention. 



Not many years ago the issue of the Annual Volume was 

 considered to complete the work of the Institute, but of late 



