THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



(HELD AT THE HOUSE OP THE SOCIETY OF AETS.) 

 Monday, July \%tli, 1898. 



[To obviate the delay in publishing the Annual Addresses, the 

 proceedings of the thirty-second Annual Meeting are inserted here.] 



The President, 

 Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., LL.D., Sc D., F.KS., 

 IN the Chair. 



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

 Report : — 



Progress of the Institute. 



1. In presenting; the Thirty-Second Annual Report, the 

 Council is ghid to be able to state that the position of the 

 Victoria Institute has been raaintained, althongh the Institute 

 has felt those adverse influences which have been so 

 v/idespread. 



2. The Institute has not only maintained its character for 

 doing important and sound work, but specially has it 

 attracted marked support for its investigations, from leading 

 men in the scientific world, who have not as yet formally 

 joined its ranks. It is widely acknowledged that what has 

 been accomplished has been of much value in the interest of 

 Religion as well as of Science. 



The tendency of its work has been to bring about a truer 

 appreciation of the results of scientific inquiry, and those 

 results have been to demonstrate that there is an absence 

 of opposition between Science and Religion. 



3. The Institute, for years so carefully built up by wise 

 counsels, and found so useful in the defence of Truth, — 

 especially in cases wh(3re the great truths revealed in Holy 

 Scripture have been questioned by any on scientific grounds 

 — claims heartiest support. The formation of a Society for 

 such a purpose is not the work of a day, and it is one Avhich 

 should not want for the loyalty of a single Member. 



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