OBDINAEY GENEEAL MEETING* 



Professor Lionel Beale, V.P., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following paper was read by the Secretary, in the absence of the 

 Author : — 



THE NEBULAR AND PLANE TESIMAL THEORIES OF 

 THE EARTHS ORIGIN By Warren Upham, M.A., 

 F.G.S.Amer. (Hon. Corresponding Member.) 



ASTEONOMY and geology, chemistry and physics, with their 

 very useful arm or ally, spectroscopy, seek together to 

 discover the origin and development of the earth and the moon, 

 of the sun and his retinue of planets, and of the starry universe : 



" In the beginning how the heavens and earth 

 Eose out of chaos." 



While we are assured that they " declare the glory of God," 

 and that " all things were made by Him," it has also been learned 

 not less surely that He has worked by His established physical 

 and chemical laws in the creation of suns and worlds. We may 

 partially discern the laws, or methods of working, through which 

 the Creator has made and upholds the myriads of stars and our 

 relatively small, but yet vast, solar system ; but beyond all that 

 we know, as, for example, of the laws of gravitation, everywhere 

 lies mystery which baffles our comprehension. 



How all matter is influenced by all other matter and drawn 

 toward it, how the earth began and came to its present condition, 

 how the crystal or the plant or the animal grows^ " great things 

 and unsearchable, marvellous things without number," proclaim 

 an omnipresent and omnipotent Creator and Euler. 



* Monday, March 20th, 1905. 



