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ORDINARY MEETING!, February 17, 1868. 
Capt. E. G. Fishbourne, R.N., C.B., Hon. Treasurer, in the 
Chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed ; and the 
names of the following new members and associate were announced, viz. - 
Members: — H. Cadman Jones, Esq., Barrister- at-law, late Fellow of Trin. 
Coll., Cambridge, 4, Old Square, Lincoln’s-Inn Fields ; Rev. Archibald 
Macmillan, 6, Westbourne-Park Place ; Rev. Lewis Barrett White, 
M.A., the Rectory, 67, Queen Street. 
Associate, 1st Class : — Miss Dudin Brown, Alexandra Hotel, Knights- 
bridge. 
The Rev. W r alter Mitchell then read the following paper, which he 
had previously read at Sion College, in reply to Professor Huxley’s address, 
delivered there on the 21st of November last : — • 
ON THE UNPHILOSOPHICA L CHARACTER OF SOME 
OBJECTIONS TO THE DIVINE INSPIRATION OF 
SCRIPTURE. By the Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A., 
Vice-President. 
T HE President of Sion College was pleased to invite a dis- 
tinguislied professor to give the clergy connected with 
that college an account of the supposed great divergence of 
thought between men of science and the clergy. We were 
told upon that occasion by Professor Huxley that the evidence 
afforded by the Nile mud and the facts disclosed by geology 
were such that no scientific man or duly instructed person 
could believe in the truth and divine inspiration of the works 
of Moses. I propose now. First, to sift the evidence by which 
the vast antiquity of man is sought to be proved, and to de- 
monstrate its unscientific character and perfect worthless- 
ness : — 
Secondly, to show that the progress of geology has been 
retarded by the unphilosophical manner in which the precepts 
