JOUKNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 



OR 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



Held at the House of the Society of Arts.* 



The President, 



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



IK the Chair. 



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

 Eeport : — 



Pj'ogress of the Institute. 



1. In presenting the Twenty-Ninth Annual Eeport, the Council 

 is glad to be able to state that the Institute's practical work 

 has advanced efiectuallj and decidedly. Members and 

 Associates have accorded steady support, and the increase 

 in the number of those in the highest walks of science 

 who have co-operated with the Institute has been of much 

 value, giving solidity to the Institute, and strengthening its 

 power for work. 



2. Many leading home and foreign societies exchange 

 Transactions with the Institute, and an increasing number 



* The President's important address on this occasion, July 25th, 1895, 

 was delivered mainly extempore, being afterwards arranged and printed. 

 Submitted for final review and correction, September, 1897. 



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