usual, and the Improvements in tlie Lecture Room have added 

 to the general comfort. 



Publications. 



9. The sixteenth volume of the Journal of Transactions has 

 been issued. 



1 0. Her Majesty the Queen, in consequence of a communi- 

 cation from the President, has been graciously pleased to 

 accept the volumes of the Transactions of the Victoria Insti- 

 tute. It is hoped that ere long Her Majesty may become its 

 patron. (See Vol. I., p. 31.) 



1 1 . Members and others in many parts of the world have 

 written, expressing warm approval of the Institute, and their 

 sense of the value of the Journal. (See Part 65, pages 

 9 et seq.) The papers and discussions are referred to by 

 many as especially useful by reason of their containing 

 careful examinations of those questions of Philosophy and 

 Science said (by its enemies) to militate against the truth of 

 Revelation. 



12. A demand for the Journal has arisen on the part of 

 the large Colonial and American Libraries, several have 

 purchased complete sets. 



13. Spain is now added to the list of countries in which 

 the Transactions are translated. 



14. The Journal is much used by Members and others 

 lecturing at home, in India, and the Colonies. 



The People's Edition. 



15. The People's Edition of certain of the popularly- written 

 papers is highly valued by the general public in England, 

 India, and especially in the Colonies (where some bookseller 

 agents have now been established) ; but the " Special Fund^' 

 for this and organizing purposes needs large support, if the 

 Institute is to meet present requirements and take advantage 

 of present opportunities. 



16. It has been urged that there is a pressing need for 

 the Institute, as a Philosophical body, taking up the fol- 

 lowing subjects in a manner suitable to the understanding 

 of the working and less educated classes, and dealing 

 with them in such a way as to meet the errors in modern 

 thought now being propagated amongst these classes (See 

 Object V.) : — I. The existence of a God ; II. The Argument 

 from Design ; III. Man's Responsibility. — Steps are now 

 being carefully taken to do this in the most effective way ; 

 by securing the aid of authors of the greatest repute, and 



