JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 
OK 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP GREAT BRITAIN. 
ORDINARY MEETING, June 6, 1870. 
The Ret. J. H. Rigg, D.D., in the Chaik. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following elections were announced : — 
Associates, 2nd Class. — J. S. Sutcliffe, Esq., Bacup ; Rev. J. Turner., 
B.A., Deddington. 
Also the presentation of the following books for the Library 
Fresh Springs of Truth . By J, Beddie, Esq. 
History of Prussia. 
From the Author. 
From C. Dibclin, Esq. 
Mr. James Reddie then read the following paper : — 
ON CIVILIZATION , MORAL AND MATERIAL ; {Also 
in reply to Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., on Primitive Man ;) 
By James Beddie,* Esq., Hon. Mem. Dial. Soc., Edin. 
Univer., Honorary Secretary, Viet. Inst. 
1. mHIS paper is supplementary to three former Essays by 
I the author, bearing upon the same subject. The 
first was a paper “ On Anthropological Desiderata,” read before 
VOL. VI. 
* The late. 
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