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ORDINARY MEETING,* March 2nd, 1874. 
The Rey. Robinson Thornton, D.D., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 
lowing Elections were announced : — 
Member, : — The Right Hon. Acton Smee Ayrton, 27, Hereford Square, South 
Kensington. 
Associates: — Lieut.-Col. Sir J. McN. Hogg, K.C.B., M.P., 26, G-rosvenor 
Gardens ; the Rev. Canon Swainson, D.D., Norrisian Professor of 
Divinity, Cambridge ; the Rev. J. Challis, M.A., P.R.S., F.R.A.S., 
Plumian Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge ; Rev. N. Loraine, Vicarage, 
Grove Park West, Chiswick. 
Also, the Presentation of the following Works to the Library : — 
“ Proceedings of the Royal U. S . Institution.” Part 75. From the Institution. 
“ Lectures to Volunteer Officers.” Ditto. 
“ Bampton Lectures for 1873.” By the Rev. Preb. I. G. Smith, M.A. 
From the Author. 
“ Faith and Philosophy.” By the same. Ditto. 
“ Discourses on the 1st Chapter of Genesis.” By the Rev. W. Robinson. 
Ditto. 
* This meeting was very numerously attended. Letters of regret were 
received from the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and The Rt. Hon. W. E. 
Gladstone, M.P. ; also the following from the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Glou- 
cester and Bristol : — 
“ Palace, Gloucester, 
“ 9th April, 1874. 
“ I am truly obliged by your note, and the enclosure. I read yesterday, 
very attentively, Mr. Forsyth’s paper, and cannot but feel that it is one of 
the clearest and best on the subject which I had ever the good fortune 
of reading. 
“ I am, with thanks, 
“ Very faithfully yours, 
“ C. J., Gloucester and Bristol.” 
“ Captain Petrie. 1 
