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ANNUAL REPORT. 



3. Meetings. 



Twelve meetings were held during the year 1914. The papers 

 read were the following : — 



"Japan, and sonie of its Problems, Beligious and Social." Bv the 



Bev. Prebendary H. E. Fox, M.A. 

 " The Christian Doctrine of Atonement." By the Bev. H. J. B. 



Marston, M.A. 



" Is the so-called ' Priestly Code ' of Post-exilic date ? " By the Bev. 



Chancellor Lias, M.A. 

 "The Character of the Bible inferred from its Versions." Bv the 



Bev. T. H. Darlow, M.A. 

 "The Xuinber of the Stars." By Sydney Chapman, Esq., B.A., 



D.Sc., Chief Assistant at the Boyal Observatory, Greenwich. 



(III?/. st rated by Lantern Slides.) 

 "The First Chapter of Genesis." Bv E. Walter Maunder, Esq., 



F.B.A.S. 



" The Latest Discoveries in Babvlonia." Bv Theo. G. Pinches, Esq., 

 LL.D., M.B.A.S. 



" Frederic Godet, Tutor of Frederick the Xoble." Bv Prof. 

 F. F. Boget. 



" The Composite of Baces and Beligious in America." By the BeA\ 

 S. B. McCormick, D.D., Chancellor of Pittsburg Universitv, 

 U.S.A. 



"The Supremacy of Christianity." By the Kt. Bev. Bishop J. E. C. 



Welldon, M.A., D.D., Dean of Manchester. 

 The Annual Address was delivered by Colonel Sir Charles M. 



Watson, K.C.M.G., C.B., on " Jerusalem, Past and Present," and 



was illustrated by about 50 photographs exhibited by the lantern. 

 "The Principles of World Empire." Bv E. Walter Maunder, 



Esq., F.B.A.S. 



4. The Journal of Transactions. 



Volume XLVI of the Transactions contains exactly the 

 same number of pages as Volume XLV. The Index to the first 

 43 volumes is again bound up with it, and the contents of the 

 three subsequent volumes are added at the end. It is intended 

 to publish, in a later volume, a new edition of the Index, 

 brought up to date. 



5. Council and Officers. 



The following is the list of the Council and Officers for the 

 year 1914:— 



