Third Meeting: 5th August, 1907.
Mr. E. V. Miller, President, in the chair.

New Members.—H. H. Metcalfe, C.E., H. Roche, Dr. Buck.

Dr. r. Briffault delivered a lecture on “Science and Meta physics.”

After illustrating the growth and characteristics of scientific method, and the standards of scientific demonstration, the lecturer proceeded to compare the conceptions held by the physicist on certain physical questions—as the nature of matter, the transmission of energy, ideas of motion, force, space, &c.—with the arguments of metaphysicians and others.