Z ANNUAL MEETING. 



of the Institute, and it must afford no small satisfaction to 

 the Members generally to see that their individual and col- 

 lective efforts to make the Society what it should be have 

 been so successful. 



3. The Council are also much gratified to be able to record 

 that the number of those in the high walks of Science who 

 have joined or aided in the Institute's work is steadily in- 

 creasing ; such support has tended to enhance the value of 

 its investigations in regard to Philosophical and Scientific 

 questions generally, and especially in respect to those theories 

 which might seem opposed to Religious belief. What has 

 been accomplished of late has been in the interest of 

 Religion as well as Science, and its tendency has been to 

 bring about a truer appreciation of the results of Scientific 

 inquiry. 



4. It is satisfactory to note the continued progress of the 

 " American Institute of Christian Philosophy," an indepen- 

 dent society, founded on the lines of the Victoria Institute, 

 whose statement of objects was adopted by it. Its founders 

 are still members of this Institute, and among the foremost 

 to bear testimony to the value of our work. 



5. The number of Scientific Societies and other Public 

 Bodies exchanging or purchasing the Transactions is 

 increasing. 



6. In consequence of the growing inconvenience of the 

 Institute's late premises, into which the Institute was obliged 

 to move in 1889, the Council sought to secure others, and 

 fortunately obtained the apartments which had been first 

 occupied in 1869, and since rebuilt. 



7. The Library of Reference is becoming larger, and the 

 Council wish to call special attention to the importance of an 

 increase in the Library Fund. 



8. The following is the new list of the President and 

 Council : — 



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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., LL.D., M.P., 



Past President of the Royal Society. 



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The Rt. Hon. Lord Halsbury, Lord Hisjh Chancellor. 

 Sir H. Barkly, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., F.R.S. I W. Forsyth, Esq., Q.C., LL.D. 



Sir J. Bisdon Bennett, M.D., F.R.S. Alexander McArthur, Esq., M.P. 



Sir Joseph Fayrer, K.C.S.I., F.R.S. J Rev. Preb. Robinson Thornton, D.D. 



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D. Howard, Esq., F.C.S. | Rev. Preb. H. Wace, D.D. 



W. N. West, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.R.Hist.S. 



Jijon. auditors— J. Allen, Esq. ; J. E. Wakefield, Esq. 



