CONTENTS. 



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Preface v 



Report op the Council por the year 1917 1 



Cash Statement for the year 1917 7 



In Memoriam : Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S 8 



Annual General Meeting, held on Monday, March 18th, 1918, 

 Lieut. -Colonel Mackinlay in the Chair 9 



Prehistoric Man : His Antiquity and Characteristics. By 

 William Dale, Esq., F.S.A., F.G.S 11 



Communications. — From the Rev. Canon Girdleetone, the 



Rev. Chancellor Lias 20 



DiaciLssion. — ^Remarks by Mr. A. W. Oke, Mr. T. B. Bishop, 

 Dr. W. Woods Smyth, Mr. A. W. Sutton, Mr. M. L. 

 Rouse, Mr. Sidney CoUett, Rev. John Tuckwell ... 23 



The Mosaic Origin op the Pentateuch. By the Rev. A. H. Finn 32 



Letters received by the Lecturer. — From the Very Rev. A. F. 

 Kirkpatrick, D.D., the Rev. Professor A. Naime, D.D., 

 and the Very Rev. Mosee Gaster, Ph.D 50 



Discussion. — Remarks by Professor Langhome Orchard, 



Mr. M. L. Rouse, Mr. E. Walter Maunder 53 



Communications. — From the Rev. Canon Girdlestone, the 



Rev. Chancellor Lias 55 



SUNSPOTS AND SOME OF THEIR PECULIARITIES. By E. WaLTER 



Maunder, Esq., F.R.A.S 58 



The Reserved Rights of God. By the Rev. H. J. R. Marston, 

 M.A 74 



Why We Die. By Major W. McAdam Eooles, M.S., M.B., F.R.O.S., 



R.A.M.C 82 



Discussion. — ^Remarks by Dr. A. T. Schofield, Mr. J. O. Corrie, 



Mr. M. L. Rouse, Mr. Sidney Collett, Mr. W. Hoste ... 92 



The Gnostic Conception op the Cross. By the Rev. Canon J. A. 



MacCulloch, D.D 98 



Discussion. — Remarks by Professor Langhome Orchard, 



Mr. M. L. Rouse, the Rev. H. J. R. Marston 117 



Communication. — ^The Rev. D. M. Mclntyre HQ 



