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ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 T. Chaplix, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, after which it 

 was proposed by the Council, and unaniniouslv approved, that the following 

 Address be j^resented to Her Majesty the Queen : — 



"May it please Your Majesty, 



"We, the President, Vice-Presidents, Council, and Members of the 

 Victoria Institute most humbly beg leave to assure Your Majesty of our 

 deepest sympathy in the grievous loss that Your Majesty has sustained in 

 the death of His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Battenberg, while on 

 active servicv? with Your Majesty's forces in Africa. 



" That Your Majesty may be mercifully sustained in health and strength 

 under the great bereavement, and that Your Majesty may long be spared 

 to rule over Your Majesty's loyal and affectionate subjects is our most 

 earnest and heartfelt prayer. 



" (Signed) G. G. Stokes, 

 " Given under our hand this President. 



6th day of February, in the year 1896." 



An appropriate and almost similarly worded Address was arranged to 

 Her Royal Highness the Princess Henry of Battenberg. 



A paper entitled "Where is Mount Sinai?" by Professor E. Hull, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., was then read, and a discussion took place in which Sir 

 Charles Wilson, W., R.E., K.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S., Canon (iirdlestone, 

 M.A., and others took ]jart. The enquiry is not yet in comijlete form. 



* 4th of ISDG Scfcsioi), Feb. 3. 



