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ORDINARY MEETING, May 18, 1874. 
J. Eliot Howard, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the fol- 
lowing elections were announced : — 
Member : — Rev. F. M. Oxenham, M.A., Oxon, 95, St. George’s Road. 
Also the presentation of the following works to the Library : — 
“Journal of the Royal United Service Institution.”- Last part, vol. xviii. 
From the Institute. 
“ Alleged Difficulties in the Teaching of the New Testament.” By Rev. 
Prebendary Row. From the Author. 
“ Commentary on the Bible,” 6 vols. By Rev. C. Girdlestone. 
Ditto. 
“ Flint Implements.” By J. Parker, Esq. Ditto. 
“ Hyena Cave of Wookey Hole.” By the same. Ditto. 
“ History of Oxford in the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries.” 
By the same. Ditto. 
“Hollingsworth” (volume and pamphlet). By Dr. Sexton. Ditto. 
The following paper was then read for the author, who is resident in 
America, by the Rev. Prebendary Row, M.A. 
THE FINAL CAUSE AS PRINCIPLE OF COGNITION 
AND PRINCIPLE IN NATURE. By Professor 
G. S. Morris, M.A., Michigan University, United 
States. 
I N more than one of the papers presented at the meetings 
of this Institute, the notion of final cause, or of design 
in nature, has been dwelt upon and defended. There can be 
no excuse for returning to the subject, except the desire to 
have included in the records of the Institute a paper, which 
shall attempt still more specifically, and, perhaps, from a point 
of view not previously chosen, to establish the definite pre- 
sence of the idea in the world of reality, and its necessity as a 
principle of our thought about nature, 
