158 
Publications * 
11. The Tenth Volume of the Journal of Transactions has 
been issued, and the several Quarterly parts for the current 
year will appear in due course. 
12. In the publication of the Transactions the Council has 
continued the practice of printing in full the papers read, and 
the discussions thereon, so that country and foreign Members, 
although unable to be present at the meetings, may enjoy, as 
far as possible, the same advantages as those attending them ; 
and in many instances communications in regard to important 
points not taken up at the meetings have been sent in by 
country Members. These, being added to the Journal, have 
enhanced its value. 
13. Many Members at home and abroad continue to use the 
papers in the Journal as lectures, or as the basis of such, in 
their neighbourhoods ; and the foreign as well as the home 
demand for the Transactions has grown steadily. 
14. As it is very desirable that the translation of the more 
popular papers into foreign languages should be more 
extended, steps are being taken with that object. 
15. About 50,000 copies of the papers in the Journal have 
been published during the past two years. 
16. The People’s Edition.' — With a view to further opposing 
that scepticism of the day arising from erroneous views as to 
the true results of scientific discovery, or from the rash 
adoption of such pseudo-Philosopliical or quasi- Scientific 
theories as tend to undermine the public belief in revealed 
religion, the Council decided in 1874 to commence the 
issue, in a cheap form, of single copies of some of the papers 
in the Journal of Transactions ; seven papers are now so 
published. The Institute has now nineteen bookseller-agents 
in the various lai’ger towns of the United Kingdom for the 
sale of this Edition, and it has been much sought for, for 
circulation amongst friends and distribution amongst the 
* The Transactions now extend to ten volumes, containing the papers and 
discussions thought worthy of publication. Some are purely scientific, such 
as e.g., the paper on the Isomorphism of Crystalline Bodies, and some take 
up those questions of Science or Philosophy which bear upon the truths 
revealed in Scripture, — these latter are taken up on account of the assaults 
made in the name of Science or Philosophy upon Revelation, and with a 
view to elucidating the Truth, and getting rid of such philosophic or 
scientific theories as might prove baseless ; theological questions being 
naturally outside the Institute’s objects, are left for other Societies and 
ministers of religion. 
