CONTENTS OF YOL. XVII. 
Preface 
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ix 
JOURNAL OF TRANSACTIONS. 
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Annual General Meeting, June 15, 1882 1 
Sixteenth Annual Report 1 
Speeches 9 
The Recent Survey of Western Palestine and its Bearing 
upon the Bible. By Trelawney Saunders, Esq 15 
Speeches 29 
Ordinary Meeting, March 20, 1882 33 
Climatic Influences as regards Organic Life. By Surgeon- 
General C. A. Gordon, C.B., M.D 33 
Discussion on the above 55 
Ordinary Meeting, December 4, 1882 69 
Ordinary Meeting, January 1, 1883 VO 
On the Argument from Design in Nature, with some Illus- 
trations from Plants. By W. Powell James, M.A. ... 71 
Discussion on the above 90 
Ordinary Meeting, February 5, 1883 98 
