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ORDINARY MEETING, March 18, 1867. 
The Rev. Walter Mitchell, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous Meeting having been read and confirmed, it 
was announced that 6 . T. Miller, Esq., 59, Portland Place, had been elected 
a Member of the Institute. 
The discussion upon Mr. Warington’s Paper, read at the last Meeting, 
“ On the Credibility of Darwinism,” was resumed by Mr. Reddie ; who read 
the following Paper in reply to that of Mr. Warington : 
ON THE CREDIBILITY OF DARWINISM. {In reply to 
Mr. Warington’s Paper , read March 4 th, 1867.) By 
James Beddie, Esq., Hon. Sec. Viet. Inst. 
O N the present occasion. Sir, I could have wished that Mr. 
Warington and myself had changed places. I almost 
wish, I mean, that 1 could have written and read his paper, 
that I might have had the satisfaction of hearing how he 
would have criticised it. He will not, I hope, misunderstand 
the double compliment I mean most sincerely to pay him, in 
saying this now. Could I have undertaken to write in defence 
of" Darwinism, I would have wished to write as plainly as Mr. 
Warington has done. And if I wished, on the other hand, to 
pull all the arguments he has advanced to pieces, I should 
like nothing better than to let loose his critical faculty upon 
the paper it is now our duty to discuss. I think, Sir, it is a 
happy circumstance that in this Society such an impartial 
and temperate paper should have been read upon such a 
subject ; and I most sincerely trust that the tone of the dis- 
cussion throughout will be that observed by Mr. Warington, 
whether we agree or disagree with the views he has advanced. 
I have thought it right to make these preliminary remarks, all 
the more because I so thoroughly disagree with Mr. Warington 
