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ORDINARY MEETING, March 4, 1872. 
Charles Brooke, Esq., E.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed ; and the fol- 
lowing elections were announced : — 
Members : — John Eliot Howard, Esq., F.L.S., Lordship Lane, Totten- 
ham ; Rev. Gr. S. Rowe, 20, George Road, Edinburgh. 
Associates : — Rev. W. Brodie, M.A. (Trin. Coll. Camb.), the Vicarage, 
East Meon, Petersfield ; Rev. C. A. Bury, B.A., Sandown, Isle of 
Wight. 
Als o the presentation to the Library of the following books : — 
Proceedings of the Royal Society. Part 131. From the Society. 
Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archceology. Part 1. Ditto. 
The Chairman. — As the paper which is now about to be read specially 
refers to the published opinions of Sir John Lubbock, the Council invited 
him to attend this meeting ; and I have received a note in which he thanks 
us for our invitation, but regrets that a prior engagement renders it impos- 
sible for him to be present. Therefore we shall not have the pleasure of 
hearing what he has to say in defence of his own views. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
PREHISTORIC MONOTHEISM , considered in relation to 
Man as an Aboriginal Savage .* By the Rev. J. H. Titcome, 
M.A. 
S IR JOHN LUBBOCK, in Lis Origin of Civilization, lays 
down certain assertions respecting the religious charac- 
teristics of the races of man which are so clearly contrary to 
the experience and testimony of many trustworthy witnesses, 
that I shall devote this paper to a refutation of them. The 
* The proceedings of this Meeting are inserted here, as the paper read 
thereat takes up some points in Sir John Lubbock's theory which were 
not dealt with in a paper “ On Civilization, Moral and Material, ,, See 
page 1 .— Ed. 
