RESULTS OF THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1131, 26 August 1882, Page 2

RESULTS OF THE RECENT SURVEY OF PALESTINE.

The Right Hou. the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., presided at the annual meeting of the Victoria Philosophical Institute of Great Britain, which took place in London on the 15th of June. The honorary secretary, Captain F. Petrie, read the report, which showed the total number of Home, Indian, and Colonial members to be 950. Professor Pasteur and many other well-known men of science had joined in the past year, to further the Society’s objects.—namely, the investigation of all philosophical and scientific 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 Honorable A. S. Ayrton, The Bishops of Adelaide and of Nelson, who spoke of the value of the Victoria Philosophical Institute's Transactions, and their great anxiety for the increase of the number its members in the colonies, where its Journal, recording the investigations of learned men into the truth as regards the philosophical and scientific questions of the present day, would be 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.