ORDINARY MEETING, March 15, 1875. 
C. Brooke, Esq., E.R.S., Y.P., in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 
lowing elections were announced : — 
Members: — J. G. Gibbs, Esq. (Surgeon-Major Madras Medical Service), 
Riclanansworth ; M. H. Habershon, Esq. (Hon. Master and Secre- 
tary of Rotheram College), West Hackney ; Rev. C. F. Norman, M.A. 
(Cantab.), Mistley. 
Associates : — Rev. E. J. Barrett, Cape Colony ; Rev. W. S. Davis, Cape 
Colony ; Rev. T. Eastwood, Cape Colony ; Rev. P. Hargreaves, Cape 
Colony ; Rev. W. Hunter, Cape Colony ; Rev. James Morris, Cape 
Colony ; Rev. Joseph Morris, Bristol ; Rev. W. Park, A.M., Belfast ; Rev. 
J. E. Parsonson, Cape Colony ; Rev. T. Powell, F.L.S., Samoa, Pacific ; 
Rev. W. H. Tucker, M. A., Brentwood ; Rev. E. J. Warner, Cape Colony ; 
Rev. C. White, Cape Colony ; Colonel C. W. Hutchinson, R.E. (Inspec- 
tor-General for Public Works Department, Bengal) ; W. Stephenson, 
Esq., Hull ; A. Rivers Willson, Esq. (Chemist), Hammersmith. 
Also the presentation of the following Works to the Library : — 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Society,” Part 159. From the Society. 
“ Proceedings of the Warwickshire Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. 1874.” 
Rev. P. Brodie. 
“ Atomism.” By Rev. Professor Watts. The Author. 
“ Materialism.” By Rev. Dr. Hooppell. Ditto. 
“ Man’s Responsibility for his Belief.” By Rev. J. Macnaughtan. Ditto. 
“ Holland House.” Yol. II. T. W. Masteruian, Esq. 
The following paper was then read by the author : — 
ON THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF EVIDENCE 
FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES. By the Bev. J. M'Cann, 
D.D., E.R.S.L., F.G.S. 
S CIENCE is knowledge in the fullest and truest meaning 
of that word. We cannot be said to know any fact, unless 
we know its relation to other facts, the place it occupies in 
