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INTERMEDIATE MEETING, February 17, 1873. 
The Rey. J. H. Titcomb, M.A., in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 
lowing Elections were announced 
Member : — 
The Rev. G-. Calthorp, M.A., Vicar of St. Augustine’s and Lecturer at 
St. John’s Hall, 8, Highbury Quarant. 
Associates : — 
William Bodkin, Escp, M.D., Chelmsford. 
Miss Frances Locock (Life), Leaside, Kings wood Road, Dulwich. 
Rev. G-. Roberts, Thormaby Vicarage, Stockton-on-Tees. 
Rev. R. Tapson, Crossway Place, Combe Down, Bath. 
Also, the presentation of the following Work for the Library : — 
“ Transactions of the Royal Society.” Part 141. 
From the Society. 
The following paper'"' was then read by the Author 
SCIENTIFIC FACTS AND CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE . 
By John Eliot Howard, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.M.S., 
F.R.H.S;, Memb. Pharm. Soc. and Botanical Soc. of 
France, kc. 
Part I. — (a) The Atomic Theory. 
A S the primary object of the Victoria Institute is t “to 
defend the revealed truth of Holy Scripture against oppo- 
sitions arising not from real science, but from pseudo-science,” 
it seems to become a duty resting on each individual member 
* Circumstances rendered it necessary for the Council to fix the reading 
of this Paper at an intermediate meeting. [Ed.] 
t Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, vol. i. p. 5. 
