ANNUAL REPORT. 



3. Meetings. 



During the year 1913 twelve meeting were held. The papers 

 read were the following : — 



"Present Day Factors in New Testament Study." By the Eev. 



Canon R J. Knowling, D.D. 

 " The Fact of Prediction." By the Rev. John Urquhart. 

 " Vision, in Sacred and other History." By the Bev. John Huntley 



Skrine, D.D. 



" Methods of Biblical Criticism." By the Ven. Archdeacon William 



Sinclair, M.A., D.D. 

 " Pompeii : Life in tlie First Century a.d." By E. J. Sewell, Esq. 

 " The Bearing of Archaeological and Historical Research upon the 



New Testament." By the Rev. Parke P. Flournoy, D.D. [The 



Gunning Prize Essay.] 

 " The Samaritan Pentateuch, and Philological Questions connected 



therewith." By the Rev, J. Iverach Munro, M.A. 

 " The Origin of Life — What do we know of it I " By Professor G. 



Sims Woodhead, M.A., M.D., LL.D. 

 " The Position and Principles of the Criticism of the Old Testament." 



By the Very Rev. H, Wage, D.D., Dean of Canterbury. 

 The Annual Address was delivered by Arthur W. Sutton, Esq., 



J.P., F.L.S., who gave an account of his journey " From Suez to 



Sinai," illustrated by 100 photographs exhibited by the lautern. 

 " The Fall of Babylon, and Daniel v., 30." By the Rev. Andrew 



Craig Robinson, M.A. 

 A Meeting was also devoted to the discussion of the Gunning Prize 



Essay, and proved both interesting and profitable. 



4. Tlie Journal of Transactions. 



Volume XLV of the Transactions of the Institute was issued 

 in December last and contained the papers, discussions and 

 communications of the Session, December, 1912, to June, 1913. 

 The Council desire to express their great indebtedness to 

 Dr. J. W. Thirtle, who passed the Volume through the press, and 

 to Mr. Arthur W. Sutton for the beautiful plates which he 

 supplied in illustration of the Annual Address, " From Suez to 

 Sinai." 



The papers contained in the Volume are almost wholly devoted 

 to subjects bearing upon the Inspiration of Scripture, upon the 

 present aspects of Biblical Criticism, and upon the light which 

 recent archseological and historical research have thrown upon 

 these. The Council trust that the ehect of the Volume will be 

 to render clearer our apprehension of the nature and of the 

 truth of Inspiration, and to strengthen our faith when we 

 encounter difhculties, as yet unsolved, by the sight of difficulties, 

 which in the past seemed insoluble, but have been made plain 

 ])y fuller knowledge and research. 



