Institute is doing good work, not only in the defence of Christianity, hut 
also in promoting the best interests of science. It has already far surpassed 
our most sanguine expectations, and I trust it will continue to prosper, and 
that, if we are spared for another year, we shall he able to report even a 
more satisfactory state of things. (Applause.) 
The President. — I have now to request that the Bishop of Edinburgh 
will be good enough to give us the address he has been so kind as to 
prepare. 
The Bight Reverend Bishop Cotterill then read the following annual 
address : — 
ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND 
RELIGION THROUGH THE PRINCIPLES OF 
UNITY , ORDER , AND CAUSATION. By the Right 
Rev. Bishop Cotterill, D.D., F.R.S.E. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
I WILL not venture to question the judgment of the Council 
of your Society when from time to time they invite others 
of its members, besides those whose time is largely devoted to 
scientific pursuits, to deliver its Annual Address. Yet when 
they claim, as they justly may, the co-operation of those of us 
who cannot presume to speak with authority on any special 
branch of science, you will not expect from us the kind of aid 
which is so effectually rendered by the eminent scientific men 
who take a large part in the work of your Institute ; you will 
allow us to speak from our own point of view, and of those 
aspects of the question of the Relations between Religion and 
Science with which our minds are most familiar. 
In addressing you, therefore, on the present occasion I do 
not propose to undertake that, which perhaps is the proper 
duty of one selected to deliver this Address, i.e. to bring before 
you the present state of the great question, commenting on 
the latest discoveries or speculations which directly or in- 
directly may seem to affect it. I will assume that I shall be 
allowed to take a somewhat different, and in one sense a wider 
scope, and to discuss some fundamental principles, which have 
in my judgment a very important bearing on the purposes for 
which this Institute is founded. 
