JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 
OR 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 
Monpay, Ist Juny, 1889. 
The President, 
Sir Gzorce Gapriet Stokes, Bart., M.A., D.C.L., P.R.S., M.P., 
IN THE CHAIR, 
Captain Francis Perrin, F.G.S., &c., Hon. Sec., read the following 
Report :— 
Progress of the Institute. 
1. In presenting the Twsnry-rairp AnnuaLt Report the 
Council has to announce that in no year since its foundation in 
1865 has the Institute’s practical work advanced so effectually 
and decidedly as during the past year. The steady support 
which both Members and Associates accord, and the increased 
number of those in the high walks of Science who co-operate 
with the Institute, are of the utmost value; giving solidity to 
the Institute, strengthening its working, and causing many 
who might otherwise not have joined or aided in its work to 
do so. The remarkably few retirements have also shown how 
fully all realise the desirability of making use of the present 
opportunities of advancing a Society the value of whose aims 
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