ANNUAL REPORT. 



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Bell, 105. ; The Rev. Canon D. M. Berry, £1 Is. ; Miss E. H. 

 Bolton, £10 ; Dr. Alfred H. Burton, £2 ; G. R. Christie, Esq., 

 M.A., £1 Is. ; The Rt. Hon. Lord Dunleath, £5 ; The Rev. Preb. 

 Fox, M.A., £10 ; The Rev. Canon Girdlestone, £5 6s. ; Archibald 

 Greenlees, Esq., £1 Is. ; Arthur Jessop, Esq., £5 ; Lt.-Col. G. 

 Mackinlay, £5 5s. ; Miss M. Mackinlav, £2 2^. ; E. Walter 

 Maunder, Esq., F.R.A.S., £2 2s. ; Dr. W. H. Plaister, £3 35. ; 

 E. J. Sewell, Esq., £2 2s. ; Arthur W. Sutton, Esq., J.P., £10 ; 

 Miss C. Tindall, £1 Is. ; F. P. Trench, Esq., F.R.C.S., £1 Is. ; 

 W. Duncan White, Esq., £5 ; C. E. Baring Young, Esq., £200. 



12. Auditors. 



The Council desire to tender to Messrs. Lance Gray and 

 G. Avenell their warm thanks for their services as Auditors, 

 continued through another year. 



13. Gunning Prize. 



The award of the Gunning Prize was allotted this year, according 

 to the notice published in last year's report, to the best book, 

 published within the previous three years, in accord with the 

 objects and aims of the Victoria Institute. After careful 

 consideration it was decided by the Council to divide a sum 

 of £70 between the Rev. A. H. Finn (£40) for his book " The 

 Unity of the Pentateuch," and Sir Bertram C. A. Windle, F.R.S. 

 (£30), President of University College, Cork, for his work, " The 

 Church and Science." 



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The year has been marked by the appearance in pamphlet 

 form of seven important lectures read before the Institute in 

 previous years. 



1. "The Problem of Nature." By the Rev. G. F, 



Whidborne, M.A. 



2. "Modern Conceptions of the Universe." By G. F. C. 



Searle, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. 



3. "The First Chapter of Genesis." By E. Walter 



Maunder, Esq., F.R.A.S. 



4. " Creation or Evolution." By Walter Kidd, Esq., M.D., 



F.Z.S. 



5. " The Bearing of Archaeological and Historical Research 



upon the New Testament." By the Rev. Parke 

 P. Flournoy, D.D. 



