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ORDINARY MEETING,* February 16th, 1874. 
C. Brooke, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 
lowing Elections were announced : — 
Associates : — Rev. J, M. H, Du Pontet de la Harpe, B.D., Pastor of 
the Frnch Evangelical Church, 16, Kildare Gardens ; Nicholas Whitley, 
C.E., F.M.S., Penarth, Truro. 
Also, the presentation of the following Works to the Library — 
“Proceedings of the Royal Society.” Part 149. From the Society. 
“Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institute for 1871/’ From the Institute . 
“ Revelation and Science.” By the Rev. P. Onslow. 
From the Fev. I. G. Smith, D.D. 
“ Duration of Future Punishments.” By Rev. J. Constable. 
From L. Biden, Esq. 
“ Hades.” By the same. Ditto. 
“ L’ Architecture du Monde des Atomes.” From J. E. Howard, Esq. 
“ Bach’s Answer to Davison on the Johannian Gospel.” 
The following Paper was then read by the Author : — ■ 
THE BRIXHAM CAVERN AND ITS TESTIMONY TO 
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN EXAMINED. By 
N. Whitley, Esq., C.E., Hon. Sec. of the Royal Institu- 
tion of Cornwall. 
T HERE are two lines of speculative scientific research 
recently promulgated by some few leading men of science, 
both of which aim at establishing the existence of man in times 
of remote antiquity. The theory of evolution, which professes 
to trace up man’s descent from the lowest form of marine life 
* Specially an Ordinary Meeting. 
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