moral in its effects. At the present time the speaker was engaged in writing an article on the attitude of the Christian nations towards subject races: and the terrible fact seemed clear that, notwithstanding the guarantee of the Powers at Berlin in 1885 that they would aid in the moral uplifting of the natives of the Congo State, its population, which in 1884 could hardly be put lower than 30 millions, had dwindled to 72 millions in the year before the war. This showed that materialism and the worship of force had been manifesting itself in other nations as well as in Germany.

Bishop WELLDON, in acknowledging the vote of thanks, said that he had too much respect for Dean Wace's power in controversy to have risked some of the statements he had made, if he had not known that there would be no discussion.

Professor MARGOLIOUTH moved a vote of thanks to Dean Wace, and especially he would wish to voice the thankfulness of the Meeting that he was able to be present with them, and again to use his hand in writing.

The Rev. JOHN TUCKWELL seconded this vote of thanks. He remarked that among the previous speakers there had been four clergymen of the Church of England, and he presumed that as this was an undenominational Society it was because he was a minister outside that Denomination that he had been asked to second this vote. All regretted the absence of Lord Halsbury, but all were glad to welcome and congratulate the Dean of Canterbury on his recovery from his recent accident. He had the highest regard for him both as a Churchman and as a Christian, and he begged to commend to the cordial acceptance of the Meeting the resolution which he had been asked to second. He then put the resolution to the Meeting and it was carried unanimously.

The CHAIRMAN briefly responded and the Meeting adjourned at 5.50 p.m.

GENERAL INDEX TO THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE.

A GENERAL INDEX to the first forty-three volumes of the Journal of Transactions of the Institute (No. I, 1865, to No. XLIII, 1911), arranged alphabetically under both the names of the Authors and the Subjects, was issued with volume XLIV, and can also be obtained from the Secretary in separate form, bound in cloth, for one shilling the copy.

CONTENTS OF THE FIVE LAST VOLUMES.

VOL.

XLIV.

Annual Address. Modern Unrest and the Bible. By SIR ANDREW WINGATE, K.C.I.E. The Genealogies of our Lord. By Mrs. A. S. LEWIS, LL.D.

Natural Law and Miracle. By Dr. LUDWIG VON GERDTell.

The Greek Papyri. By the Rev. Professor G. MILLIGAN, D.D.

The Conditions of Habitability of a Planet, with Special Reference to the Planet Mars. By E. WALTER MAUNDER, Esq., F.R.A.S.

The Historicity of the Mosaic Tabernacle. By the Rev. Professor JAMES ORR, D.D.
The Real Personality or Transcendental Ego. By SYDNEY T. KLEIN, Esq., F.L.S.,
F.R.A.S.

Difficulties of Belief. By the Right Rev. THE BISHOP or Down.
Some Lucan Problems. By Lieut.-Colonel G. MACKINLAY.

Archæology and Modern Biblical Scholarship. By the Rev. JOHN TUCKWELL, M.R.A.S.
Adaptations in Plants and Animals to their Conditions of Life are the Result of the
Directivity of Life. By the Rev. Professor G. HENSLOW, M.A.

International Arbitration in the Greek World. By MARCUS N. TOD, Esq., M.A.
The Influence of Babylonian Conceptions on Jewish Thought. By the Venerable
Archdeacon BERESFORD POTTER, M.A.

Index of Authors and Subjects in 43 previous volumes.

VOL. XLV.

Annual Address. From Suez to Sinai. By ARTHUR W. SUTTON, Esq., J.P., F.L.S. (Illustrations).

Immortality. By the Rev. A. R. WHATELY, D.D.

Present Day Factors in New Testament Study. By the Rev. Professor R. J. KNOWLING, D.D.

The Fact of Prediction. By the Rev. JOHN URQUHART.

Vision in Sacred and other History. By the Rev. J. H. SKRINE, M.A., D.D. Methods of Biblical Criticism. By the Ven. Archdeacon WILLIAM SINCLAIR, D.D. Pompeii. By E. J. SEWELL, Esq.

The Bearing of Archaeological and Historical Research on the New Testament. By the Rev. PARKE P. FLOURNOY, D.D. (being the Gunning Prize Essay, 1912).

The Samaritan Pentateuch, and Philological Questions connected therewith. By the Rev. J. IVERACH MUNRO, M.A.

The Origin of Life, what do we know of it? By Professor G. SIMS WOODHEAD, M.A., M.D.

Old Testament Criticism, its Position and Principles. By the Very Rev. H. WACE, D.D., Dean of Canterbury.

VOL. XLVI.

Annual Address. Jerusalem, Past and Present.

WATSON, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.A. (Summary.)

By Colonel Sir CHARLES M.

The Fall of Babylon and Daniel v, 30. By the Rev. ANDREW CRAIG ROBINSON, M.A. Japan, and some of its Problems, Religious and Social. By the Rev. Prebendary H. E. Fox, M.A.

The Christian Doctrine of Atonement. By the Rev. H. J. R. MARSTON, M.A.
Is the so-called 66
Priestly Code" of Post-exilic date? By the Rev. CHANCELLOR
LIAS, M.A.

The Character of the Bible inferred from its Versions. By the Rev. T. H. DARLOW,
M.A.

The Number of the Stars. By SYDNEY CHAPMAN, Esq., B.A., D.Sc., Chief Assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

The First Chapter of Genesis. By E. WALTER MAUNDER, Esq., F.R.A.S.

The Latest Discoveries in Babylonia. By T. G. PINCHES, Esq., LL.D., M.R.A.S.
Frederic Godet, Tutor of Frederick the Noble. By Professor F. F. ROGET.

The Composite of Races and Religions in America. By the Rev. S. B. MCCORMICK, D.D.,
Chancellor of Pittsburg University, U.S.A.

The Supremacy of Christianity. By the Right Rev. Bishop J. E. C. WELLDON, D.D., Dean of Manchester. (Summary.)

VOL. XLVII.

Annual Address. The Unity of Genesis. By Professor H. EDOUARD NAVILLE, D.C.L., LL.D.

The Principles of World Empire. By E. WALTER MAUNDER, F.R.A.S.

The Life and Work of Homer. By Professor D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, D.Litt.; Laudian Professor of Arabic.

Modernism and Traditional Christianity. By the Rev. Canon E. MCCLURE, M.A., M.R.I.A.

Present Position of the Theory of Organic Evolution. By Professor ERNEST W.
MACBRIDE, M.A., F.R.S.

Traces of a Religious Belief of Primeval Man. By the Rev. D. GATH WHITLEY.
The Spectra of Stars and Nebulæ. By Professor A. FOWLER, F.R.S. (Abstract.)
The Determination of Easter Day. By Dr. A. M. W. DoWNING, M.A., F.R.S.
Astronomical Allusions in Sacred Books of the East. By Mrs. WALTER MAUNDER.
The Zoroastrian Conception of a Future Life. By Professor J. HOPE MOULTON, M.A.,
D.Litt.

Mahayana Buddhism and Christianity. By the Rev. W. St. CLAIR TISDALL, M.A., D.D.
Weights and Measures of the Hebrews. By Professor ARCHIBALD R. S. KENNEDY,
M.A., D.D.

The Old and New Versions of the Babylonian Creation and Flood Stories. By T. G. PINCHES, Esq., LL.D., M.R.A.S.

VOL. XLVIII.

Annual Address. The Influence of the War on Religious Life in Great Britain. By the Rt. Rev. BISHOP J. E. C. WELLDON, D.D., Dean of Manchester.

The Spectra of Stars and Nebulæ. By Professor A. FOWLER, F.R.S. (Full Report.) The Movements of the Stars. By Professor A. S. EDDINGTON, M.A., F.R.S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge.

The Principles governing Bible Translation. By E. J. SEWELL, Esq.

The Unity of Isaiah. Ry the Rev. Chancellor LIAS, M.A.

The Fulfilment of Prophecy. By the Rev. A. H. T. CLARKE, M.A. (Abstract.)

The Psychology of St. Paul. By the Rev. H. J. R. MARSTON, M.A.

Inscriptions and Drawings from Roman Catacombs. By the Rev. Prebendary H. E.
Fox, M.A.

The Influence of German Philosophy in bringing about the Great War. By Professor
D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, D.Litt., Laudiau Professor of Arabic in the University of
Oxford.
The Connection between the Vulgate Version of the Bible and the Theology of the
Western Church. By the Rev. H. J. WHITE, M.A., Professor of New Testament
Exegesis, King's College, London.

Thanksgiving Service, May 24th, 1916.

Commemoration Meeting, May 24th, 1916, in celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First General Meeting.

The Tidal Wave on the Off Side of the Earth from the Moon. By Professor EDWARD HULL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

President.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF HALSBURY,
D.C.L., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.

DAVID HOWARD, ESQ., D.L., F.C.S., F.I.C. (Trustee).
LIEUT.-GEN. SIR H. L. GEARY, R.A., K.C.B.

PROFESSOR EDWARD HULL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.
REV. CANON R. B. GIRDLESTONE, M.A.

GENERAL J. G. HALLIDAY.

VERY REV. H. WACE, D.D., Dean of Canterbury (Trustee).
SIR HENRY H. HOWORTH, K.C.I.E., D.C.L., F.R.S.

Honorary Auditors.

E. J. SEWELL, ESQ. | H. LANCE GRAY, ESQ.

Honorary Treasurer.

ARTHUR W. SUTTON, ESQ., J.P., F.L.S.

Secretary and Editor of the Journal.
E. WALTER MAUNDER, ESQ., F.R.A.S.

Assistant Secretary.

MR. ALBERT E. MONTAGUE.

Council.

(In Original Order of Election.)

REV. CHANCELLOR J. J. LIAS, M.A.

THEO. G. PINCHES, ESQ., LL.D., M.R.A.S.

REV. JOHN TUCKWELL, M.R.A.S.

LIEUT.-COLONEL GEORGE MACKINLAY (Chairman).
ARTHUR W. SUTTON, ESQ., J.P., F.L.S.
REV. PREBENDARY H. E. FOX, M.A.

PROFESSOR H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD, M.A., B.Sc.
RT. REV. BISHOP J. E. C. WELLDON, D.D.
SYDNEY T. KLEIN, ESQ., F.L.S., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.
ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD, ESQ., M.D.

REV. H. J. R. MARSTON, M.A.

VEN. ARCHDEACON BERESFORD POTTER, M.A.
J. W. THIRTLE, ESQ., LL.D., M.R.A.S.

E. J. SEWELL, ESQ.

ALFRED W. OKE, ESQ., B.A., LL.M.

LT. COLONEL M. A. ALVES.

REV. PROFESSOR D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, D.LITT.
R. W. DIBDIN, ESQ., F.R.G.S.

JOSEPH GRAHAM, ESQ.

REV. G. HAROLD LANCASTER, M.A., F.R.A.S.
T. B. BISHOP, ESQ.