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PREFACE. 
in his steps; Professor G. G. Stokes, M.A., F.R.S. (Lucasian 
Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, and Secretary to the 
Royal Society), one of the foremost scientific men of the 
present day, who reviews the recent advances of science and 
shows that the Book of Nature in no way runs counter to the 
Book of Revelation. The value of such a paper from one so 
eminent as a scientific layman cannot be too highly esteemed 
in these days, when scientific knowledge is often boldly claimed 
as the exclusive possession of those who deny the truths of 
Revealed Religion, and it is taken for granted that high 
scientific attainments arc incompatible with Christian faith ; 
Professor II. Wace, M.A. (King’s College, London'' , who 
deals with Mr. Herbert Spencer’s last volume, “The Data of 
Ethics”; and, the Rev. S. J. Whitmee, F.L.S., Ac., whose 
paper and map are the result of twenty years' labour amongst 
the islands of the Pacific, the Ethnology of which ho has 
investigated in such a manner as to make his work of special 
value. 
The new arrangements for securing the greater usefulness 
of the Journals of Transactions to country and foreign mem- 
bers continue to meet with increased success, and to facilitate 
the extension of the Institute abroad. Out of upwards of 
one hundred members who have joined during this year, nearly 
one-half are resident in America or the Colonies. 
We last year drew attention to Professor Virchow’s state- 
ment, that any positive advance in the province of prehistoric 
Anthropology had removed us further from the proof of 
man’s connexion with the rest of the animal kingdom ; 
we now find that a long and . careful investigation among 
the brachiopodes, cephalopodes, and trilobites, made by one 
