TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
(HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.) 
The President, 
Sir Grorce GaBRIEL Sroxes, Bart., LL.D., D.C.L., P.R.S., M.P., 
IN THE CHAIR. 
[The Report read at this meeting, held Monday, 14th July, 
1890, was circulated among the Members at the time, but 
its insertion in the Journal has been delayed in the hope that 
the Address then delivered might have accompanied it as 
usnal, but the author has, to his great regret, been unable, as 
yet, to complete the MS.—As soon as it reaches the Council 
it will be published.] 
Captain Francis Perriz, F.G.S., &c., Hon. Sec., read the following 
Report :— 
Progress of the Institute. 
In presenting the Twenry-Fourta Annuat Report, the Council 
desires to congratulate the Members and Associates on the 
steady progress of the Institute, especially abroad; this is 
due, in no small degree, to the increasing personal interest 
taken in its welfare by its supporters. 
This personal interest has been apparent—in the small 
number of retirements that have taken place, in the many 
instances of those who had once been Members applying to 
rejoin, and of Associates expressing a wish to become full 
Members; in the efforts of local Members to bring the work 
of the Institute before others, getting local libraries and 
eee bodies to subscribe (as Associates) for the Journal, 
ecturing from the papers in the Journal, translating the 
papers into the language of the country in which they are 
resident, and in many other ways promoting the objects 
of the Institute. 
2. The Victoria Institute is year by year doing good 
service in opposing the spirit of infidelity, by its careful and 
impartial investigation of those questions in which Science 
is alleged to be in conflict with the truths of Revelation, 
