ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.* 
Davin Howarp, Esq, D.L., F.C.S., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, 
MESSAGE FROM THE KING. 
The Secretary (Professor EK. Hunt, LL.D.).—You will recollect 
that the Council passed and conveyed a very loyal and dutiful 
Resolution to the King on his accession to the throne, and their 
expressions of condolence on the death of Her late Majesty Queen 
Victoria. I have now received a reply from the Home 
Secretary :— 
** Home Office, Whitehall. 
“29th March, 1901. 
“¢ Sir, 
“T am commanded by the King to convey to you hereby His 
Majesty’s thanks for the loyal and dutiful address of the Council 
and Members of the Victoria Institute, London, expressing 
sympathy on the occasion of the lamented death of Her late 
Majesty Queen Victoria, and congratulations on His Majesty’s 
accession to the throne. 
‘**T am, Sir, 
“Your obedient servant, 
“Tos. S. Rircuim. 
‘To the Secretary of the Victoria Institute.” 
* Monday, Ist Apri., 1901. 
