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ANNUAL MEETING. 



6. MEETINGS. 



The subjects dealt with at the ordinary meetings have been 

 of the usual varied character, which may be regarded as one oi 

 the special advantages of the Institute as an educational 

 institution to a wide circle of readers in all parts of the world, 

 and spreading religious and secular knowledge into many 

 distant and isolated regions. The subjects may be arranged 

 under the following heads : — 



1. Sacred History. 



1. "On the Samaritan Text of the Pentateuch." By the Rev. Canon 



Garratt, M.A. 



2. " Tiie Samaritan Passover of the Present Day." By the Rev. 



Canon Hammond, LL.B. 



3. "Old Testament Chronology." By Fredk. Gard Fleay, Esq., 



M.A. 



2. Geology. 



1. "Notes on the Volcanic Phenomena of New Zealand." By Miss 



Hilda Boord. 



2. " Date of the Last Rise of the Land in the British Isles." By 



Professor Edward Hull. 



3. " The Thickness of the Ice in the former Glacier of the Lucerne 



Valley." By the same Author. 



4. " On the Tanganyika Problem." By Wilfred H. Hudleston, 



Esq., M.A., F.R'.S. 



3. Biological. 



I. "The Genesis of Nature." By Rev. F. G. WhidbornE, M.A., 

 F.G.S. 



4. Science and Religion. 



1. "Two Paths, One Goal," being an examination of Archbishop 



Temple's Bampton Lecture for J 884, by Walter A. Kidd, Esq., 

 M.D., F.Z.S. 



2. " Ancestral Worship." By Rev. Arthur Elwin. 



3. "The Conception of the Great Reality." By Sydney T. Klein, 



Esq., F.R.A.S. 



5. General. 



1. " Observations on the Irrigation of India." By Charles Odling, 



Esq., C.S.I. 



2. "Prehistoric Drawings cut on Glaciated Rock near Tenda." By 



Cavaliere W. P. Jervis, F.G.S. 



7. The Journal of Transactions. 

 The thirty-fifth volume of the Journal of Transactions 

 has been widely circulated in many lands. The Council 



