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The Annual General Meeting held at the House of the 



Society of Arts. Monday, July 16, 1900 1 



The Thirty-fourth Annual Repout and Address 1 



Our Coal Eeserves at the close of the Nineteenth Century. 



By Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S ... 10 



Speeches by — 



The President 19 



The PtEv. Canon Girdlestone, M.A. 

 Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., F.RS. 

 The Ven. Archdeacon Thornton, D.D. 

 Captain Heath, R.N. 

 The Unity of Truth. Being the Annual Address to the 

 Victoria Institute for 1899. By the Right Hon. Sir 



Richard Temple, Bart., G.C.S.I ^.. 21 



Address from the Officers, Members, and Associates of the 

 Victoria Institute to the President on the Jubilee of 

 his Professorship in the University of Cambridge .... 34 



Life as compared with the Physical Forces. By J. W. Slater, 



Esq., F.C.S., F.E.S 35 



The Discussion. Remarks by — 

 Dr. R. C. Shettle. 



Professor Lionel S. Beale, M.D., F.R.S, 

 The Rev. R. Collins, M.A. 

 Surgeon-Colonel S. Smith, R.E. 

 The Rev. H. J. Clarke, M.A. 

 Mr. D. Biddle. 



The late Dr. John Rae, F.RS. 

 Rev. Professor Bernard. 

 The Worship and Traditions of the Aborigines of the Islands 



of the Pacific Ocean. By Rev. M. Eells, D.D 58 



Discussion by — 



David Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S. 



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