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that in the region of mythology they will ultimately be found to 
be the wisest, who are at present content to know the least; that 
while some mythological fables are too trifling to deserve interpre¬ 
tation, others are too tangled to admit of it; and that the man 
who, at the present day, shall attempt to interpret the Greek gods 
from the transliteration of Sanscrit or Hebrew words, will be found, 
like Ixion, to have embraced a cloud for a goddess, and to have 
fathered a magnificent lie from the fruitful womb of his ow r n con¬ 
ceit. There is no more dangerous passion than that which an 
ingenious mind conceives for the fine fancies which it begets. 
The following Gentlemen were admitted Fellows of the 
Society:— 
Dr G. H. B. Macleop, Professor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow. 
Dr Thomas A. G. Balfour, F.K.C.P.E. 
The following Gentlemen were admitted Honorary Fellows 
of the Society :— 
1. Foreign. 
Hugo von Mohl, M.D., Pli.D., Member of the Imperial Academy Naturae 
Curiosorum. and Professor of Botany in the University of Tubingen. 
Claude Bernard, Member of the Institute of France, Professor of Physio¬ 
logy in the College of France. 
2. British . 
Thomas Andrews, M.D., F.R.S., M.B.I.A., Vice-President and Professor of 
Chemistry in Queen’s College, Belfast. 
