ANNUAL MEETING. 



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Membership. 



The Annual Subscription for Members is two guineas, and 

 for Associates, one guinea. There is no entrance fee and both 

 receive the Journal post free. 



5. Obituary. 



The Council have to deplore the loss by death of many 

 supporters, including several distinguished members, amongst 

 whom may be specially named His Excellency Count Bernstorff, 

 formerly ambassador to this country from the German Empire, 

 and greatly esteemed for his piety and nobility of character, 

 also : — 



The Eight Eev. Bishop Bompas, D.D., Archdeacon J. I. Brooke, 

 Edward Chapman, M.A., John G. Cribb, R. J. Finnemore, J.P., 

 Samuel Finley, Rev. G. Grenfell, F.R.G.S., J. G. Langham, Rev. A. C. 

 Macpherson, M.A., Rev. J. McWilliam, James S. Napier, Rev. J. Rate, 

 M.A., Horace J. Smith-Bosanquet, J.P., D.L., Ven. Archdeacon W. F. 

 Taylor, D.D., J. E. Vanner, Alfred J. Woodhouse, L.D.S., Richard 

 Wood, J.P., Rev. Prebendary Rogers, Rev. Professor S. L. feowman, 

 M.A., D.D., author of an important work on the Historical Evidences of 

 the New Testament— and R. Denny Urlin, B.L. 



6. MEETINGS. 



The subjects treated at the ordinary meetings during the 

 past session may be arranged under the following heads : — 



1. Biblical. 



1. "The Scriptural Idea of Miracles." By Rev. Canon Girdlestone, 



M.A. 



2. ";The Pedigree of the Nations." No. II. By M. L. Rouse, 



Esq., B.L. 



2. Geographical. 



1. " Orissa : its History and People." By Charles W. Odlinq, 



Esq., C.S.I. 



2. " Exploration of Asia Minor as bearing on New Testament 



History." By Professor Sir William M. Ramsay, LL.D. 



3. "Recent Discoveries in Pale.stine and Syria." By Dr. E. W. 



Gurnet Masterman, F.R.G.S. 



3. Geological and Physical. 



1. "The San Francisco and Valparaiso Earthquakes and their 



Causes." By Dr. Warren Upham, M.A., F.G.S. 



2. " The Spread of the European Fauna." By Professor J. Logan 



Lobley, F.G.S., F.R.G.S. 



3. " Plant Distribution from an Old Standpoint." By Dr. H. B. 



GUPPY, F.R.S.E. 



