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Publications . 
10. The thirteenth volume of the Journal of Transactions 
has been issued. 
11. People's Edition. At a recent Council meeting 
communications were read from members in India and the 
Colonies, showing that the London secularist societies are 
actively supplying those places with pseudo-philosophical and 
quasi-scientific literature intended to promote scepticism in 
regard to Religion (translations of such papers into the dialects 
of India are also circulated), and the Colonial press is being- 
used with a similar purpose. As a consequence many of our 
correspondents abroad desired that the People's Edition of 
the Institute papers should be as widely circulated, lists of 
booksellers being forwarded by some of them with a view to 
aiding the Council in placing the People's Edition within 
reach of their neighbours. (English, American, and Colonial 
correspondents assign as a reason for this, that they find in the 
papers of the Institute a careful examination of those questions 
of Philosophy and Science which are said to militate against 
the truth of Revelation, and which questions are used against 
it by its active and unscrupulous enemies.)* 
It has been felt that any adequate effort on the part of the 
Institute to occupy the field of work thus offered to it re- 
quires special activity and also an increase both of Members 
and of the People's Edition Fund. 
12. General. The Institute availed itself of the Autumnal 
Public Meetings to make its organization and objects more 
known. At Sheffield, among the preparations made by the 
Institute, previous to the meeting of the British Association, 
arrangements were made with Messrs. W. H. Smith and the 
local booksellers, for the sale of the “ People's Edition," which 
was also permitted at the stationery stall in the Reception Hall 
of the Association. The Institute's publications were specially 
brought under the notice of all the members of the British 
Association, and many residents. 
* Letters lately received from Members and non-members in the United 
Kingdom, many Colonies, and also in the United States, urge the great 
value of the Papers in the Society’s Journal, on account of their careful 
and impartial character ; they also contain special references to the dis- 
cussions ; many speak of the usefulness of both, as aids in arranging 
lectures, and for reference. 
