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eminently suited to the needs of the times, and the Council feel 
assured that its circulation will be productive of much good. It 
is now printed and can be purchased (in pamphlet form). Copies 
have been sent for review to the leading periodicals and papers. 
The Council will be grateful to all Members and Associates 
who -will do what they can to circulate this useful essay, which 
so well carries out the objects and aims of the Victoria Institute. 
10. Special features of the Current Year. 
As already noted the annual retirement of one-third of the 
Members of the Council is a special feature in the history of 
the Institute. This has been inaugurated this year. 
The reading of the 500th paper was made a special occasion, 
when a most excellent paper was contributed by Professor G. F. 
C. Searle, M.A., F.R.S., on “Modern Conceptions of the Universe.” 
Another paper, by the Rev. Professor Gwatkin, M.A., D.D., 
the chief authority on Early Church history, on “ Arianism 
and Modern Thought,’ attracted the greatest attention, and 
lastly, there is the Prize Essay already mentioned by Professor 
H. Langhorne Orchard. 
11. Local Meetings for the. Victoria Institute. 
The Council are making a forward movement in holding 
Meetings for the Victoria Institute in country towns and in the 
suburbs of London. They will gladly send lecturers, or help in 
any other way Members or Associates who will hold sueh 
meetings in their own localities. If two or three Members or 
Associates live near each other, a joint effort may be made with 
this object in view. The Secretary will gladly introduce 
Members and Associates to each other. Two Members have 
arranged for an invitation meeting at a hall in Upper Norwood, 
on May 12th next, at which Professor H. Langhorne Orchard, 
M.A., B.Sc., will give an address on the subject of his prize essay 
and W. Carruthers, Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S., and others have 
also kindly promised to speak. Another meeting is being 
arranged for in the autumn at Wimbledon. In places where 
courses of winter lectures are given the Council will gladly 
send a lecturer from the Victoria Institute to take part; 
by this means the aims and objects of the Victoria Institute 
will be directly furthered, and the work of the Institute 
itself will be made known to a wide circle. 
