CONTENTS OF YOL. II. 
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Council and Officers for 1867-8 v 
Objects of the Victoria Institute ... ... ... ... ... vi 
Terms of Membership, &c vii 
Preface ^ 
JOURNAL OF TRANSACTIONS. 
Ordinary Meeting, 18 th February, 1867 1 
On Terrestrial Changes, and the Probable Ages of the 
Continents ; Founded on Geological Observations and 
Astronomical Data. By Evan Hopkins, Esq., C.E., F.G.S., 
M.V.I. ’ x 
Discussion on Mr. Hopkins’s Paper 13 
Reply by Mr. Hopkins ... ... ... ... ... ... 30 
Ordinary Meeting, 4 th March, 1867 38 
On the Credibility of Darwinism. By George Warington, Esq., 
F.C.S., M.V.I 39 
Discussion on Mr. Warington’s Paper 62 
Ordinary Meeting, 18 th March, 1867 63 
On the Credibility of Darwinism. (In reply to Mr. Warington.) 
By James Reddie, Esq., Hon. Sec., V .1 63 
Discussion on Darwinism, Continued ... ... ... ... 85 
Ordinary Meeting, 1st April, 1867 97 
Discussion on the Credibility of Darwinism, Concluded ... 97 
Discussion in the Paris Anthropological Society, on the Re- 
lations BETWEEN THE ANTHROPOID APES AND MAN 125 
Ordinary Meeting, 15 th April, 1867 129 
On Utilitarianism. By James Reddie, Esq., Hon. Sec. V.I. ... 129 
Discussion on Mr. Reddie’s Paper ... ... ... ... ... 139 
Ordinary Meeting, 6th May, 1867 147 
On the Logic of Scepticism. By Rev. Robinson Thornton, D.D. 
Head Master of Epsom College, M.V.I. ... ... ... 147 
Discussion on Rev. R. Thornton’s Paper ... 159 
Note on the Extinct Volcanoes of Auvergne ... ... . j 166 
