156 CAVALIERE G. JERVIS ON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. 



The following Eesolution electing David Howard, Esq., Vice- 

 President, was also unanimously passed by the Council on the 

 motion of Professor Lionel S. Beale and seconded by Captain Heath, 

 E.N. :— 



" Resolved, that David Howard, Esq., D.L.. F.C.S.. one of the 

 Trustees, be elected Vice-President in the room of the Lord 

 Chancellor, The Earl of Halsbury, who lias accepted the position 

 of President." 



The thanks of the Council were passed to Archdeacon Sinclair for 

 his services in the above matters. 



A paper was then read, entitled : — 



THU GLORIOUS REVELATION TOUCHING THE 

 CREATION OF THE WORLD. By Cavaliere Gugliemo 

 Jervis, F.G.S., and member of the Italian Geological Society 

 in Rome. Translated from the Italian by Mr. Marti K L. 

 KousE, by whom also it was read to the meeting. 



The paper elicited a lively discussion. 



On consideration by the Council it was decided not to print 

 the paper in the Journal of Transactions, chiefly on the ground 

 that it had already been printed and published in Italy, and 

 was, therefore, not an original communication. Its object was 

 to give a geological interpretation, of a very literal character, to 

 the Genesis account of the Creation of the World and its 

 inhabitants, and the summary of the author's conclusions may, 

 perhaps, be best expressed in a passage from the preface to the 

 paper, in which he says : " In the course of many long years 

 devoted to the teaching of Science, the writer does not hesitate 

 to affirm that he has not discovered that the study of Geology in 

 the least degree conflicts with anything that the Author of every 

 science revealed to man." 



The paper in MS., together with the shorthand writer s report 

 of the discussion which followTcl after the paper itself had been 

 read, will be preserved in the offlce of the Institute for reference 

 by any member who desires to consult it ; and the Editor can 

 only express his regret that he is unable to give it a wider 

 circulation. The reader will find some interesting remarks by 

 Chev. Jervis bearing on the subject of his paper in his letter 

 addressed to the Secretary dated 26th April, 1902, in vol. xxxiv 

 of the Transactions, p. 280. 



E. H. 



