8. The meetings daring this session have been held as 
usual, and the improvements in the Lecture Room have added 
to the general comfort. 
The Journal. 
9. The Fourteenth Volume of the Journal of Transactions has 
been issued. It contains many papers and communications 
from those whose names and the value of whose scientific 
researches are a sure guarantee for the ^^full and impartiaP^ 
character of their investigations (object 1), and for the 
manner in which they have ^‘'considered the mutual bearing 
of the various scientific conclusions arrived at in the several 
distinct branches into which Science is now divided, in order 
to get rid of contradictions and confl.icting hypotheses, and 
thus promote the real advancement of true Science (object 
3). Such work so carried on must tend to the advantage of 
Science, and to a right interpretation of the book of Nature ; 
and we may well be sure that when the truth in regard to 
that Book is told, it will not be found to clash with that other 
book — the Book of Revelation. 
The Peo^ole^s Edition. 
10. The People^s Edition Fund has enabled the 
Council to add three of the recent Papers in the Journal of 
the Transactions to this Edition. Copies of two of these, 
— by Bishop Cotterill and Professor Stokes, F.R.S.,* Lucasian 
Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, — have been sent 
to selected persons (3,600) in every part of the world, — 
especially India and the Colonies, — with a suggestion that these 
Papers should be translated, or their insertion secured (wholly 
or in part) in local newspapers, or that they should be other- 
wise used to the best advantage in the several neighbour- 
hoods. This step has proved of great advantage not only to 
the Institute itself, but also generally to the cause it was founded 
to maintain. 
* In his paper, “Professor G. G. Stokes, M. A., F.R.S. (Lucasian Professor of 
Mathematics at Cambridge, and Secretary to the Eoyal Society), one of the fore- 
most scientific men of the present day, reviews the recent advances of science, 
and shows that the Book of Nature in no way runs counter to the Book of 
Eevelation. The value of such a paper from one so eminent as a scientific 
layman cannot be too highly esteemed in these days, when scientific know- 
ledge is often boldly claimed as the exclusive possession of those who deny 
the truths of Eevealed EeligioUj and it is taken for granted that high 
scientific attainments are incompatible with Christian faith.” — Preface. 
vol. xiv. 
