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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



(HELD AT THE HOUSE OP THE SOCIETY OF AETS.) 



Monday, July \%th, 1894, 



The President, 



Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.j LL.D., Sc.D., F.E.S., 



IN TUE Chair. 



[The delay in piiblisliiiig the proceedings of the Annual 

 Meetings has been increased by the omission of the records 

 of one such meeting, in a recent volume. To obviate such 

 delay in future the proceedings of the twenty-eigJitli Annual 

 Meeting are inserted here.] 



Captain Francis Petrie, F.G.S., &c., Hon. Sec, read the following 

 Report : — 



Progress of the Institute. 



In presenting the Twenty-Eighth Annual Report, the Council 

 is glad to be able to state that the progress of the Victoria 

 Institute is fully maintained, not only as regards the impor- 

 tance and usefulness of its philosophical and scientific inves- 

 tigations, but also in respect to the augmented number of 

 home and foreign members now contributing to enhance the 

 value of these, and the cordial assistance which the Institute 

 ever receives from such leachng men of science as may 

 not already have joined its ranks. 



In order that every advantage may be derived from the 

 labours of those now furthering its objects, and that the 

 efficiency of the Institute may not only be maintained 

 but augmented, the Council is anxious that the impor- 

 tance of adding to the number of its supporters should 

 be a subject present to the minds of all members and 

 associates, both at home and abroad, and to this end asks 

 their co-operation. 



