o53ri) OEDINAEY GENEEAL MEETING. 



HELD (BY KIND PERMISSION) IN THE ROOMS OF THE 

 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTS, ON TUESDAY, MARCH 24th, 1914, 



AT 4,30 P.M. 



The Very Eeverend H. Wage, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, 



PRESIDED AT THE OPENING OF THE MEETING, AND WAS 

 SUCCEEDED IN THE GhAIR AT 450 P.M. BY PrOF. D. S. 



Margoliouth, D.Litt., L^udian Professor of Arabic. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary announced the election of Miss Norah Ure Mackinlay, 

 Prof, D. S. Margoliouth, and Dr. F. Layton Orr as Associates of the 

 Institute. 



The Very Reverend the Dean of Canterbury opened the 

 proceedings by expressing the great regret which all present must 

 feel for the cause which had prevented the Eev. C. H. W. Johns 

 from giving his expected lecture on "Early Migrations of the 

 Semitic Eaces." The Chairman went on to say : 



That is a subject of very great importance on which Dr. Johns is 

 one of our highest authorities, and I am sure you will wish your 

 Secretary, Mr. Maunder, to convey to Dr. Johns on your behalf, 

 your regret at the illness which has prevented him coming here on 

 this occasion, and the hope that we shall be able to welcome him 

 here at some later date. 



I have no doubt that we owe it to the kind influence of our new 

 Secretary, Mr. Maunder, that this vacancy has been filled by so 

 interesting a subject, and by so competent a lecturer as Dr. Chapman, 

 the Chief Assistant of the Eoyal Observatory, Greenwich, whom I 

 have now the pleasure to introduce to you. There is perhaps no 

 department of natural science which presents to us such interest, as 

 that which deals with the vast astronomical facts which are being 

 brought before us with ever increasing distinctness day l)y day. 

 There is only one other subject of the same kind which can rival it 

 in interest, and that is the astonishing minuteness of detail revealed 

 to us by the microscope. What, by a legitimate metaphor, we may 



