VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1912. 

 Read at the Annual General Meeting, February 3rd, 1913. 



1. Progress of the Institute. 



It is with great satisfaction and thankfulness that the 

 Council issue their forty-fourth Annual Report. They con- 

 gratulate the Members upon the improved financial position as 

 indicated below, and upon the additional net increase in the 

 number of Associates during the year. This increased support of 

 the Institute and its work is largely the outcome of the valuable 

 contributions to its vital objects by the learned authors who 

 have so kindly read papers on important and interesting 

 questions of the day ; but the Council desire also to acknowledge 

 with sincere gratitude the untiring and successful work of the 

 Secretary, to whom the good progress of the past year is chiefly 

 due. The attendances during the year were greater than ever, 

 and point in the direction of more accommodation than our own 

 rooms ahbrd being necessary. 



2. Meetings. 



During the year 1912 thirteen meetings were held. The 

 papers read were as follows : — 



The Greek Papyri." By the Eev. Professor G. Milligan, D.D. 



(with Lantern Illustrations). 

 " The Conditions of Habitability of a Planet, with special reference 



to the Planet Mars." By E. W. Maunder, Esq., F.R.A.S., 



Poyal Observatory, Greenwich. 

 " The Historicity of the Mosaic Tabernacle." By the Rev. Professor 



James Orr, M.A., D.D. 

 "The Peal Personality or Transcendental Ego." By Sydney 



Klein, Esq., M.R.I., F.L.S. 

 "Difficulties of Belief." By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of 



Down, D.D. 



" Some Lucan Problems." By Lt.-Col. Mackinlay. 



" Archaeology and Modern Biblical Scholarship." By the Rev. John 



Tuckwell, M.R.A.S. 

 " Directivity of Life, as seen in the Structure of Plants and 



Animals." By the Rev. George Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



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