646th ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN THE CONFERENCE HaLL, CENTRAL BuiLDINGS. WESTMINSTER, S.W., 



ON MONDAY, JULY 3rd, 1922, AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Very Rev. Henry Wage, D.D., Dean of Canterbury— President 

 of the Institute — in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous meeting were read, confirmed, and 

 signed, and the Hon. Secretary announced that the following had been 

 elected since the last meeting :— As Members, G. Babington Michell, 

 Esq., O.B.E., G. H. Judd, Esq., F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S. ; as Life Associate, 

 Albert Hiorth, Esq., C.E. ; and as Associates, Miss Barbara P. Harper 

 and Robert Duncan, Esq., M.B.E. 



The Chairman then called on The Rt. Rev. Bishop J. E. C. Welidon, 

 D.D., Dean of Durham, to deliver the annual address, on " Modernism." 



ANNUAL ADDKESS. 



MODEENISM. 



By the Rt. Eev, Bishop J. E. C. WEUiDON, D.D., 

 Dean of Durham. 



It is the fashion of the present day to disparage, if not to 

 despise, the Victorian era. Yet the Victorian era was one of the 

 great periods in British history. What names can the 20th 

 century show or hope to show in comparison with such names as 

 Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Bright, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, 

 Thackeray, Macaulay, Carlyle, Euskin, and George Eliot, Darwin, 

 Hooker, Lyell, Adams, Kelvin and Lister, Newman, Keble, 

 Pusey, Liddon, and Spurgeon, Leighton, Millais and Landseer, 

 Da.vy and Stephenson. It has often been a surprise to me that the 

 three reigns of women, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Anne and Queen 

 Victoria, should have been signalised by the most conspicuous 

 achievements in war and in peace, in literature and in science. 

 Queen Victoria's reign is not unworthy to stand beside, although 

 in time so long after. Queen Elizabeth's. 



But the feature which above all others distinguishes the 

 Victorian age is man's ever-increasing command over Nature. It 

 will be enough to enumerate some few of the scientific discoveries 

 which then enriched human nature and life, such as the locomo- 

 tive steam engine, cheap literature, photography, electricity, and 



