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[In opening tlie proceedings letters were read from tlie following 

 nnembers who were unable to be present on this occasion : — His 

 Excellency the Hon. T. F. Bayard, the United States Ambassador, 

 who wrote — "If it be possible I will try to be at the Annual 

 Meeting on Monday. I am glad to see so satisfactory a Report." 

 From the Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., who wrote — " I am 

 very sorry I shall be out of London at the time ; if I had been 

 present I should have had pleasure in proposing the vote of 

 thanks to Sir Greorge Stokes." Letters of regret were also 

 received from Professor Prestwich, LL.D., F.R.S., Professor 

 Sayce, D.D., and others.] 



Sir Henry Bakklt, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S.— My lord, ladies 

 and gentlemen : You have heard the principal portion of the report 

 read by our indefatigable Hon. Secretary, and I will therefore 

 confine myself to congratulating the Institute on the progress it has 

 made during the past year, and to expressing a hope, in which 1 

 am sure you will all join, that the Institute will long continue to 

 carry out successfully the all-important objects for wbich it was 

 founded. 



I beg, therefore, to move, " that the report be received, and the 

 thanks of the members and associates presented to the Council, 

 Hon. Officers and Auditors for their eflBcient conduct of the 

 business of the Victoria Institute during the year." (Applause.) 



Sir Geoege Buchanan, F.R S. — It is my privilege to second 

 this Resolution. I will not add to the words that have fallen 

 from the proposer of it, but commend the services rendered to 

 the Institute by its OiBcers, services that have made the Victoria 

 Institute what it now is. (Applause.) 



The resolution was then put to the meeting and carried with 

 acclamation. 



Surgeon- General C.A. Gordon, C.B., Q.H.P.' — On the part of 

 the Council I am directed tp return our best thanks for the 

 Resolution, and the kindly manner in which it has been received. 

 Our work and labour in connection with this Institute has, I 

 may say with regard to all of us, been a labour of love, and it is 

 a great satisfaction to us that our exertions have been, so far, so 

 very successful. Much of that success is due to the zeal and 

 eificiency of our Hon. Secretary, because without him the Council's 

 work could not have been so satisfactorily carried out. (Applause.) . 



