6 ANNUAL MEETING. 
The Special Fund. 
18. The Special Fund is used: 
I. To extend the Library of Reference, the completion 
of which is of great importance. 
II. To help in making the Institute more widely known. 
III. To publish short summaries of the Institute’s more 
important transactions. 
IV. To print and organise the publication of the People’s 
Edition at home and abroad. 
14. The People’s Edition consists of twelve papers—written 
by men of eminence in such a style that they may be compre- 
hended by all—reprinted from the Journal of Transactions. 
The Edition was started by some members in the year 1873, 
and first attracted attention in other quarters to the impor- 
tance and need of works of the kind. ‘The papers in this 
edition are often accompanied by the objections and criticisms 
urged in discussing the subjects, many home and foreign 
correspondents having urged the value of including these. The 
papers are published in neat covers, and are sold at a nominal 
price (sixpence) by the Institute’s organisation of bookseller 
agents in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australasia, 
Canada, and South Africa. Single copies are supplied 
gratuitously, or at cost price, to all individual lecturers against 
infidelity * applying, including those of the London City 
Mission, the Christian Evidence Society, and similar bodies at 
home and abroad. 
15. The proved importance of each of the objects for which 
the Special Fund is used is such as to make it merit wide 
support. 
localities, often corresponding with the Institute as to the prepara- 
tion of such lectures; by reprinting portions of the Journal in foreign 
and Colonial journals, translating papers (in many countries); by 
using their influence in their respective localities to secure that local 
libraries and institutions should subscribe for the Journal, thus 
bringing its pages before a still wider circle of readers; by interesting 
others in its proceedings, and in many other ways which the Council 
trust may be even more generally adopted.” 
* Namely, that infidelity which arises from a misapprehension of 
the true results of Philosophical] and Scientific inquiry. 
