ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.* 
THE PRESIDENT, SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, BART., 
LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S., IN THE CHAIR, 
DEATH OF HER LATE MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 
The Presipent.—It is proposed that an address of condolence 
should be sent from the Institute to His Majesty with an ex- 
pression of our sympathy. The Secretary will read what the 
Council have drawn up. 
The Srcretary (Professor E. Hurt, LL.D.) then read the 
following Address :— 
“To His Most Gracious Masesty THe Kina. 
“The Council and Members of the Victoria Institute humbly 
beg leave to approach Your Majesty with the expression of 
their heartfelt condolence for the loss which Your Majesty 
and the Royal Family, together with the whole nation, 
have sustained by the death of her late Majesty Queen 
Victoria of blessed memory; whose assiduous devotion to 
the highest interests of the nation, whose kind and 
thoughtful consideration for those who were in any way 
brought into contact with her; and whose sympathy with 
those on whom calamity had fallen, have endeared her to 
the hearts of her subjects. Her Majesty’s gracious con- 
descension in accepting from time to time the Transactions 
of this Institute affords one slight illustration of Her 
* Monday, 4th February, 1901. 
