THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



VICT0EL4 INSTITUTE 



WAS HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONT) AY, MARCH 15th, 1920, AT 



3 P.M. 



Lieut. -Col. G. Mackinlay, Vice-President, 

 TOOK THE Chair. 



The ]\Iinutes of the last Annual General Meeting, held on March 17th, 

 1919, were read, confirmed and signed. 



The Hon. Secretary was then called upon to read the notice 

 convening the Meeting, and to present the Report and Annual 

 Accounts. As the Report had been circulated, the Hon. Secretary 

 suggested that it might be taken as read, but would be glad to 

 emphasize one or two points, the first being what he would call the 

 illusions of peace, on p. 1. The Council, though at no time deceived 

 by the promise of a new earth put forward by our respected rulers, 

 did hope that things, which had been dislocated by the war, would 

 soon right themselves ; but their experience had been that this 

 could only be looked for as the gradual effect of patient and united 

 effort on the part of all. The number of Members and Associates 

 had fallen by seventeen below the previous year, through death and 

 other causes ; against this he placed the fact that in the first two 

 months of the present year more Members and Associates had 

 joined than during the whole of last year. Besides this, the satis- 

 factory attendances at the opening Meeting of the current Session 

 were an augury of better things in store for the Institute. Might 

 not some few Associates help by becoming Members, and enjoy 

 the additional advantage of so doing ? 



The Chairman emphasized the points already raised as to the 

 need of more Members and more united effort, but also dwelt on the 



