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ANNUAL REPORT. 



9. Finance, 



The financial condition of the Institute still engages the 

 attention of the Council. As a Society we feel the effects of the 

 commercial depression in the City and the Country at large. Indeed 

 some of our Members and Associates, from no waninj? interest in 

 the objects and work of the Institute, but in order to retrench, have 

 been obliged to resign their Membership, which, with losses through 

 death, fully accounts for the small decrease in our Numbers notfd 

 above, in spite of an increas*^ of nearly fifty new names to our list. 

 The Council are adopting measures to lessen our printing expenses, 

 which last year amounted to £424 odd, but fear that they will have 

 once more to make a special appeal to their supporters to tide them 

 over the present time of stress, which all hope and believe to be only 

 temporary. Our Treasurer for some years past, Mr. Arthur W. 

 Sutton, J.P., F.L.S., Member of Council, has found himself obliged, 

 for reasons of health, to resign his post. The bef-t thanks of the 

 Council are due to him for all his kind interest and help in the work 

 of the Institute, and they express their hope that he will soon be 

 able to take his place with them once more at Council Meetings. 

 Mr. George A. King, M.A. has kindly consented to fill the vacant post. 



10. Special Donations. 



The following special donations have been received : Miss F. 

 Helen Freeman, £2 2s. ; The Venerable Archdeacon J. P. Kemp- 

 thorne, £10 ; and Miss Caroline Tindail, £1 Is. 



11. 



The sale of " Tracts for New Times " has continued to give 

 satisfaction. The Council has just issued a reprint of No. 5 " The 

 Bearing of Archaeological and Historical Research upon the New 

 Testament," by the Rev. Parke P. Flournoy, D.D., the supply of 

 which was exhausted. They have also issued three new Tracts 

 forming Nos. 7, 8 and 9 of the series : — 



7. — " Modern Unrest and the Bible," by Sir Andrew Wingate, 



K.C.I.E. 



8. — " The Attitude of Science towards Miracles," by the late 



Prof. Langhorne Orchard, M.A., B.Sc. (being the Gunning 

 Prize for 1909) 



9. — *' The Old Testament and the Present State of Criticism," 



by the Very Rev. H. Wage, D.D., Dean of Canterbury. 



Tract No. 5 has been translated mto Portuguese for the 

 Brazilians, and Slavic for the Czechoslovakians and Slavs. It is 

 now being translated into Chinese by Dr. H. M. Woods of the 

 American Chinese Mission. 



