JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 



OR 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 

 HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 



Thursday, June 18, 1885. 



Sin Henry Barkly, K.C.B., G.C.M.G., Vice-President, 

 IN THE Chair. 



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

 Report : — 



Progress of the Institute. 



1. In presenting the Nineteenth Annual Report, the 

 Council is glad to be able to record the continued progress of 

 the Institute. 



2. The increase in the number of Members has been steady, 

 notwithstanding the depression in commerce and agricultui-e 

 through which all Societies have suffered ; and there is every 

 reason to believe that the Institute's sphere of usefulness is 

 extending, and that it is yearly more effectively doing good 

 service in disarming the spirit of infidelity, by its impartial 

 investigation of those questions of Science which are alleged 

 to conflict with the truths of Revelation. 



3. As regards the Institute's Philosophical and Scientific 

 Investigations, a greater number of home, colonial, and 



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