JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 
VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MERTING, 
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 
Fripay, May 28, 1886. 
Sir Henry Barkuy, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Vicz-PReEsipEnt, 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Captain Francis Perriz, Hon. Sec., read the following Report :— 
Progress of the Institute. 
1. In presenting the Twsntirera Annuat Ruzport, the 
Council desires to state that the progress of the Institute 
during the past year has been encouraging, aided and 
maintained as it has been by the steady support accorded by 
the Members and Associates, both at home and abroad: 
without this steady support, not only would all progress have 
been arrested, but much ground already gained must have 
been lost. 
An increasing number of home and foreign Members and 
friends now contribute to enhance the value of the Institute’s 
philosophical and scientific investigations, and to enable the 
Institute to fill the position that its aims demand; and it 
must afford no small satisfaction to the Members generally 
to see that their individual and collective efforts to make the 
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