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PREFACE. 
his paper is supplemented by the last contribution to Science 
penned by the late well-known Rev.T. Romney Robinson, D.D., 
F.R.S., P.R.A.S. Judge C. W. Richmond (New Zealand) adds 
a clearly-argued paper on Materialism.^^ The Rev. H. G. 
Tomkins gives a paper ^^on Biblical proper Names, personal 
and local, illustrated from sources external to Holy Scripture’^; 
his statements being well supported by Professor Maspero, 
Mr. Hormuzd Rassam, Mr. Trelawney Saunders, and others. 
To these, and to others who have taken part in the dis- 
cussion of the subjects treated, the best thanks of the 
Members and Associates are due. 
Her Majesty the Queen, in consequence of a communication 
from the President, has been graciously pleased to accept the 
volumes of the Transactions of the Institute. It is hoped 
that ere long Her Majesty may be pleased to accept that 
position designed for her by the founders of the Institute {aec 
Vol. I., p.31). 
Amongst the names of members recently joined is that of 
Professor L. Pasteur, F.R.S. The adhesion of such men as 
Pasteur and Wurtz, and many others at home and abroad, 
has greatly tended to render the Institute more powerful 
for good, especially at a time when principles which a few 
years ago would have been taken for granted by ninety-nine 
out of every hundred persons, are now all of a sudden brought 
up for discussion, and doubt thrown upon them^^ (Speech by 
Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., M.P.), and when the active 
investigations of scientific men render it so important that 
accurate scientific research should be encouraged and insisted 
upon. 
