VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1920. 



Read at the jInnual General Meeting, April 18th, 1921. 



1. Progress of the Institute, 



With the presentation to the Members and Associates of 

 the Fifty-second Annual Report, the Council acknowledge with 

 thankfulness to God an unusually good year ; bespeaking a 

 return to pre-war times. There have not been so many addi- 

 tions to the ranks of the Institute for a long period as in the 

 past twelve months. The papers have been of high quality 

 and interest, and the attendances have formed a welcome 

 contrast with those of the long war-period, when, necessarily 

 by the very circumstances of the case, fewer were free to 

 attend. 



2. Meetings. 



Eleven ordinary meetings were held during the year 1920. 

 The papers were — 



" The Ruined Cities of Palestine, East and West of the Jordan." 

 By Arthur W. Sutton, Esq., J. P., F.L.S. (with Lantern 

 Illustrations). 



The Psychology of the Female Mind." By Alfred T. 

 SCHOFIELD, Esq., M.D. 



" India." By Sir Andrew Wingate, K.C.I.E. 



" The Silences of Scripture." By the Rev. A. H. Finn. 



" Metaphor and Simile in the Fourth Gospel." By the Rev. 

 Professor A. S. Geden, M.A., D.D. 



" The Walls of Jerusalem at Various Periods." By Ernest 

 W. G. Masterman, Esq., F.R.C.S. (with Lantern Illus- 

 trations). 



"The Pentateuch of the Samaritans: When they got it, and 



Whence." By the Rev. J. E. H. Thomson, M.A., D.D. 

 " Babylonia during the Reign of Nebuchadrezzar." By Dr. 

 T. G. Pinches, M.R.A.S. (with Lantern Illustrations). 



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