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OKDINAEY GENERAL MEETING, 



WAS HELD IN THE ROOMS OF THE INSTITUTE, ON 

 MONDAY, APRIL 23rd, 1906. 



Martin L. Rouse, Esq., B.L., ix the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed and the 

 Secretary stated that he had received a telegram from Mr. Hudleston, 

 Vice-President, regretting his inability to be present and to preside. 



The following paper was then read by the author : — 



ICE OR WATER. By Sir Henry H, Howorth, D.C.L., 

 E.R.S. Review by Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., T.R.S. 

 (Secretary). 



rr^HE author of this work has been so good as to present me 



_l with Vols. I and II, and as he warmly invites criticism, 

 it seems to me that the best return I can make for the gift of 

 my valued friend is to examine some of his facts and 

 arguments, and to try and induce him to accept ideas more 

 consistent, as I conceive, with physical facts and sound 

 reasoning thereon. 



On receiving the volumes some months ago in the height of 

 the busy season, it occurred to me that some of my colleagues 

 of the Victoria Institute might be induced to undertake the 

 preparation of a review which might be read before the 

 Institute during the coming session, and discussed in presence 

 of the author himself. But, failing in my effort, I resolved to 

 keep the volumes, and as a " vacation task " undertake a review 

 of their contents for the Session of 1906. The result is the 

 present paper. 



I need scarcely say I am no fit antagonist for such a master 

 of physical dialectics as Sir Henry Howorth, nor can I lay 



