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ORDINARY MEETING.* 



The President, Sir George G. Stokes, Bart., V.P.R.S., 

 in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, after which 

 »he following letters were read : — 



" Whitehall, 



1st February, 1892. 

 'Sir, 



" I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful 

 Resolution which has been adopted at a meeting of the Victoria Institute 

 on the occasion of the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence 

 and Avondale, K.G. ; and I have to inform you that Her Majesty was 

 pleased to receive the Resolution very graciously. 



" I have the honour to be, 

 " Sir, 

 " Your obedient Servant, 



"Henry Matthews." 



" Windsor Castle, 



2'ird January, 1892. 



" General Sir Dighton Probyn, Comptroller and Treasurer of the House- 

 hold, is directed to convey to the members of the Victoria Institute, the 

 best thanks of the Prince and Princess of Wales for the kind Resolution, 

 condoling with Their Royal Highnesses in their great bereavement." 



The following elections were then announced : — 



Associates :— Rev. F. E. Hoskins, A.B., A M., Syria ; J. Kennedy, Esq., 

 B.C.S., M.R.A.S., London; Jas. D. Logan, Esq., J.P., Africa; W. 

 Mackintosh, Esq., Morocco ; A. McGillewie, Esq., South Africa ; 

 H. E. Millard, Esq., Vienna; Warren Upham, Esq., Assistant 

 Geologist of the United States Survey. 



* Feb. 1, 1892. 



