164 REV. G. E. WHITE, ON SURVIVALS OF PRIMITIVE 



Discussion. 



The Secretary (Professor Hull, F.R.S.), in moving a vote of 

 thanks to the author, said, — I wish to be allowed to express my 

 gratitude to the Rev. Mr. White for his interesting communication. 

 It is not the first with which he has favoured the Institute, as he 

 sent us a paper in 1901 published in the Journal of the Society."^ 

 Since then he has been appointed to the important position of Dean 

 of the Anatolia College — and it is gratifying to know that this 

 institution is in such a flourishing condition, and is doing such 

 good work amongst the Christian population of that historical 

 region. We can never forget that Asia Minor was the country of 

 the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse — and it is lamentable to hear 

 how the nominal Christians have fallen away from the simplicity of 

 the Apostolic faith. To that faith American Missionaries are 

 endeavouring, and not without success, to recover them — and we all 

 join in congratulating the Dean on being selected to preside over 

 the College which is taking so important a part in the evangelisation 

 and the spread of knowledge amongst the people of Asia Minor. 



There is another reason why we should take a special interest in 

 the intellectual prosperity of this country — from the connection with 

 it in recent times of our late friend, General Sir Charles Wilson. It 

 will be in the recollection of some of us that this distinguished 

 officer was appointed to be Consul-General of Anatolia under the 

 Anglo-Turkish Convention, a position which he held from 1879 to 

 1882. It was doubtless due to the influence of the British 

 Plenipotentiaries to the Berlin Congress, the late Lords Beaconsfield 

 and Salisbury, that Sir Charles Wilson was appointed to this 

 position, for which he was peculiarly fitted by his familiarity with 

 Oriental populations, and his mature and considerate judgment, 

 and I venture to think that if he had been allowed to remain for 

 some years longer in that position of peaceful influence those terrible 

 massacres of the Armenian population from 1893 to 1896 by the 



* " Visit to the Hittite cities of Eyuk and Boghaz-Keoy," Trans. Vict. 

 I?ist., vol. xxxiii. 



