ANNUAL MEETING, 5 



Monday, June 18.— On " Eolithic Flint Implements." By Rev. 



ASHINGTON BULLEX, B.A., F.G.S. 



Monday, July 16. — The "Annual Address." 



7. The Journal of Transactions. 



The Queen lias again gi'aciously added the last volume 

 of the Transactions to Her Majesty's Library. 



The thirty-second volume of the Journal of Transactions 

 will, shortly be issued. It will contain the subjects brought 

 before meetings of the Institute and discussed, together with 

 the communications received from Members in the country 

 and abroad, who have added to the value of those discussions 

 by sending in communications on the subjects considered. 



The careful correction of the papers, discussions, and 

 communications, by their respective authors, often involving 

 repeated communications even with distant lands, and refer- 

 ences to the views of other investigators who have made 

 the subjects treated matters of research, is at times a cause 

 of delay iii the pubhcation of the Journal containing them, 

 but the result is to give the Volume of Transactions 

 the character of a finished work. From time to time 

 Members of the Institute and others have expressed their 

 high sense of the value of the Transactions of the Institute, 

 inasmuch as they contain not the vieios of any one person 

 only, but the loell-considcred opinions of many, resident in various 

 and even distant parts of the world. This system, carried 

 on by a competent body, gives a value to the treatment 

 of the several subjects beyond that which any individual 

 author could give. 



8. Spread of the Work and Useful Influence of the Institute. 



Not many years ago the issue of the Annual Volume was 

 considered to complete the work of the Institute, but of late 

 the wish to make further use of the matter it contains has had 

 valuable results : — 



First, Members and Associates at home, in India, and else- 

 where, make use of the papers in the Journal as lectures, or 

 as the basis of such, in their several localities, often corre- 

 sponding with the Institute in regard to the preparation of 

 such lectures. 



Secondly — Some IMembers and Associates secure the 

 translation and circulation of portions of the Journal in the 

 various countries in which they reside. Such transla- 

 tions have been made in many countries of Europe, South 



