ORDINARY MEETING-, March 1, 1880. 
J. E. Howard, Esq., F.R.S., m the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Member : — J. H. Salisbury, Esq., M.A., M.D., &c., United States. 
Associates : — Isaac Brown, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.M.S., Kendal ; W. Collet, 
Esq., London; Rev. J. Joyce Evans, M.A., London; E. Oakley 
Newman, Esq., London ; Rev. J. Strickland, B.D., London ; C. S. 
Webber, Esq., F.R.C.S., London. 
Also the presentation of the following Works for the Library : — 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Society.” From the same. 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Institution.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the United Service Institute.” . Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Geological Society.” Ditto. 
“ Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid.” By C. Piazzi-Smyth. L. Biden, Esq. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
ON TEE BEARINGS OF THE STUDY OF NATURAL 
SCIENCE , AND OF TEE CONTEMPLATION OF 
TEE DISCOVERIES TO WHICH TEAT STUDY 
LEADS, ON OUR RELIGIOUS IDEAS. By Gr. G. 
Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., LL.D.Dub., F.R.S., Lucasian 
Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, &c. 
I T is the constant aim of the student of science, who not 
only follows the labours of others, but seeks to extend his 
own researches into the region of the unknown, to refer ob- 
served phenomena to natural causes. Thus, the ocean is seen to 
