ANNUAL MEETING. 11 



The HoNOEART Seceetary (Captain Francis Petrib, F.G.S.), in 

 briefly referring to the Report, in the hands of all present, pointed out 

 the increasing and world-wide importance of the organisation and 

 work of the Victoria Institute, which was recognised as a body 

 founded to associate men of cultured mind and calm judgment, 

 in the investigation of important questions of philosophy and 

 science, more especially those questions which are alleged to 

 bear on the great truths of Holy Writ— ^so that hasty conclusions 

 may no longer afford ground for unseemly attack, to the injury 

 both of religion and science. The efficiency of the work depended 

 upon the support, as members or associates, of not only the workers, 

 but of those who profited or even approved the Institute's labours. 

 Every new member strengthened and increased the efficiency of 

 the Institute, which, in the words of its motto, was founded Ad 

 major em Dei gloriavx. 



The Right Hon. Earl Halsburt (Lord High Chancellor), Vice- 

 President : It has been entrusted to me to move : — 



" That the Report be received, and the thanks of the members 

 and associates be presented to the Council, Honorary Officers, and 

 Auditors for their efficient conduct of the business of the Victoria 

 Institute during the past year." 



I have no doilbt that, like myself, all present are most anxious 

 to hear our President's Address ; I will therefore not detain you 

 by any observations of my own. 



Sir* H. Barely, G.C.M.C, K.C.B., P.R.S. : Mr. President, my 

 lords, ladies, and gentlemen, I have very great pleasure in 

 seconding this resolution, in which I most heartily concur. 



[The resolution was passed unanimously.] 



Professor Edward Hull, F.R.S., replying on behalf of the 

 Council, said : — Although we are all waiting to hear our President's 

 Address, yet on this, the occasion of our Annual Meeting, when 

 many who are not members or associates are present, I may be 

 permitted to say something " about the Institute and its work." 



Happily the work of the Victoria Institute is much more widely 

 known, not only at home, but abroad, than it was some years ago. 

 The Honorary Secretary tells me that when he first undertook 

 the duties of that office, only ove volume of the Transactions, 

 beyond some 168 copies of the Quarterly Journals, was required to 

 be bound. N"ow 500 copies have to be bound in order to supply 

 the wants of the members, associates, and Institutions which 



