Lecture.—“The Methods and Aims of Science,” by E. V. Miller.

Abstract.

The lecturer attempted to show what mental and physical operations are concerned in the processes of scientific observation, experiment, and inference, touching on the subjects of scientific instruments and mathematics, and illustrating by short accounts of scientific results. An account was given of the genesis and growth of scientific theories, and in what way the latter, changing as they do from time to time, are to be regarded in relation to experience and reality. The utilitarian and intellectual aims of science were discussed, and a plan put forward for the wider dissemination of the scientific habit of mind and mode of belief.