JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 
VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 
Monpay, JUNE 30, 1884. 
THE Ricut Hon. tHE Haru or SHAFTESBURY, K.G., PRESIDENT, 
IN THE CHAIR. 
Progress of the Institute. 
1. In presenting the Eicuremnra Annual Report, the 
Council is glad to be able to state that, although the increase 
in the number of the Victoria Institute’s Home Members and 
Associates has been impeded by those adverse influences 
which have affected every class and interest in the United King- 
dom, yet the number of its foreign adherents is steadily 
advancing. 
As regards the Institute’s Philosophical and Scientific 
Investigations, an increasing number of those who are re- 
cognised as having especially studied each particular subject, 
have taken part therein. 
The system under which papers are read, and the discus- 
sions and comments thereon published, now enables Members 
in the most distant parts of the world to contribute papers 
and to take part in their consideration. 
VOL, XIX, B 
