VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1921. 

 Read at the Annual General Meeting, May 15th, 1922. 



1. Progress of the Institute. 



The Council of the Institute, in presenting the 53rd Annual 

 Report to the Members and Associates, are thankful to God to be 

 able to report another year of encouraging work. The meetings 

 have been numerously attended and the discussions well sustained, 

 proving that the papers read have been up to the standard of 

 past years, and have made effective appeal to those interested in 

 the special work of the Society. 



The year has been marked, amongst other things, by an event 

 which has only occurred to the Institute twice before in its history 

 of over fifty years, the much regretted death of its President. The 

 late Earl of Halsbury had occupied this post with distinction for 

 18 years, and under his leadership the Victoria Institute has 

 traversed, we trust with increased usefulness, this long period, in- 

 cluding the difficult years of the war. As an obituary notice will 

 be found in the Transactions for the year, it will not be necessary 

 to add more here, except to say that the Council are thankful to be 

 able to announce that the Very Rev. the Dean of Canterbury, a 

 Vice-President of the Society, and lone: actively associated with its 

 work, has yielded to their unanimous invitation and accepted the 

 post of President, in the place of the late Earl. 



2. Meetings. 



Twelve ordinary meetings were held during the year 1921. 

 The papers were — 



The Psychology of Man, Experimentally Considered," by 

 David Anderson-Berry, Esq., M.D. 



Lt.-Colonel Hope Biddulph, D.S.O. in the Chair. 



" Some Reflections on how Empire came to us, and can alone 

 be conserved," by the Rt. Rev, Bishop E. G. Ingham, D.D. 

 Alfred W. Oke, Esq., B.A., LL.M., in the Chair. 



Motherhood," by Amand Routh, Esq., M.D. 



Dr. Mary D. Scharlieb, C.B.E., in the Chair. 



