RESULTS OF THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1062, 1 September 1882, Page 3

RESULTS OF THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftshury, R.G., prosified at the annual meeting of the Victoria Philosophical Institute of Great R-ituiru which took place in London on the 17"h June. The honorary secretary, Cap tain F. Petrie, read the report, which showed the total number of Home, Indian, and Colonial members to he 9.70. Professor Pasteur and many otlmr -well-known men of science had joined in the past year, to further the Society’s objects,—namely, t,h investigation of all Philosophical and so entitle questions, especially those said to militate against the truth of Revelation. An address was delivered by Mr. Trelawney Saunders, the official Geographer of the Survey of Palestine. He described the scientific results of the exploration of Palestine! and their great value to the historian, especially as the recent work of the exploration seemed to bring the country before the student of the present day as it appeared to the inhabitants nineteen centuries ago, and confirmed in a most remarkable manner the accuracy of the Bible record. Among the speakers were the Right Hon. A. S. Ayrton. The Bishops of Adelaide and of Nclsni, who spoke of the value of the Victoria Philosophical Institute’s Transactions, and their great anxiety for (ho increase c.f the. number of its members in the colonies, whore its Journal, recording the investigations of learned men into the truth as regards the philosophical and scientific questions of the present day, would he even more welcome than in England. Dr. Stern, the celebrated Abyssinian captive; Mr. J. F. Bateman, F.R.S.; and Mr. D. Howard, Vice President of the Institute of Chemistry of England, and others, also spoke.