JOURNAL OF THE TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 



OR 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 



Thursday, 25th June, 1891. 



The President, 



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



Past President of the Royal Society, 



in the Chair. 



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

 Report :— 



Progress of the Institute. 



In presenting the Twenty-fifth Annual Report, the Council 

 desires to congratulate the Members generally on the con- 

 tinned advance maintained by the Institute both at home 

 and abroad; although in the Colonies it has been less marked 

 than usual by reason of those adverse influences which have 

 affected commerce. 



2. The steady support which both Members and Associates 

 have accorded, and the personal interest they have taken in 

 the Institute's welfare have given strength and solidity to 

 its work, and the remarkably few retirements have proved 

 how fully all realise the desirability of making use of the 

 present opportunities of advancing a Society the value of 

 whose aims are recognised by all thoughtful men. Such 

 cordial co-operation is of inestimable value to the progress 



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