JOUMAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



YICTORIA INSTITUTE, 



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PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



THIRTIETH ANNUAL MEETING, 



Held at the House of the Society of Arts.* 



The President, 



Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., LL.D., ScD., F.E.S., 



IN THE Chair. 



Captain Francis Petrie, F.G.S., &o., Hon. Sec, read the following 

 Keport : — 



Progress of the Institute. 



In presenting the Thirtieth Annual Effort, the Council 

 desires to state that the progress of the Institute during the 

 past year has been encouraging, aided as it has been by 

 the steady support accorded by the members at home and 

 abroad. Without this steady support, not only would all 

 progress have been arrested, but much ground already gained 

 would have been lost ; with it, the President and Council 

 have been enabled to build up more firmly a society 

 combining the voluntary labours of a still increasing mem- 

 bership at home and abroad in defence of the truth. 



But, the last Report showed that the work of the Victoria 

 Institute has so increased as to render a still larger membership 



* The President's Address on this occasion, July 15th, 1896, wa,? 

 delivered mainly extempore, being afterwards arranged and printed. 



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