OKDINAKY MEETING, May 2, 1881. 
J. E. Howard, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Life Member : — Eev. T. Ladds, M.A., Leighton. 
Members Rev. J. B. Whiting, M.A., Ramsgate ; Miss A. W. Richardson, 
Ireland. 
Life Associate : — H. S. Williams, Esq., M.A., F.R.A.S., A.C., Swansea. 
Associates; — Herbert Crichton Stuart, M.A., D.L., Bute ; S. W.’Ford, Esq., 
M.A., United States ; Rev. S. D. Feet, M.A., United States ; Rev. S- 
D. Stubbs, M.A., London. 
Also the presentation of the following works for the library : 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society.” From the same. 
“ Beneath the Surface.” By Rev. E. Duke, F.G.S. Ditto. 
The following paper was then read by the author ; — 
AN EXAMINATION OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF ME. 
HERBERT SPENCER. By the Kev. W. D. Ground. 
T he System of Philosophy associated with the name of 
Herbert Spencer has now been nearly twenty years 
before the philosophical world, and it has slowly made its way 
until it has won a place in the first rank of such productions. 
Whatever we may think of it, it is not easy to withhold our 
intellectual homage. It is the last, and probably the greatest, 
attempt ever made to present a true philosophy of the Kosmos ; 
it is imbued with the modern scientific spirit ; it claims to be 
strictly in accord with scientific principles ; it displays a 
breadth of generalisation and a wealth of energy such as we 
find only in the greatest works of all time ; and it is by many 
