VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



REPOKT OF THE COUISrClL FOR THE YEAR 1910. 

 Read at the Annual Business Meeting, Feb. 6, 1911. 



1. Meetiiigs. 



Owing to the adoption of a new Rule, requiring that the 

 Annual Business Meeting should be held early in the year, this 

 Report follows so soon after that of 1909, that the usual state- 

 ment in regard to meetings and papers read will be very short. 

 Reference was made in May last to most of the papers of the 

 year 1910; it only remains to add that at the Annual Meeting 

 the Institute was favoured with an admirable paper by A. C. D. 

 Crommelin, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.A.S., of the Greenwich Observatory, 

 on " The Return of Halley's Comet in 1910," which was listened 

 to with very great interest by a large audience ; and that at the 

 closing meeting of the year, held in December, a paper by 

 Judge George H. Smith, of Los Angeles, California, on "The 

 Theory of Jurisprudence," was read and led to an interesting 

 discussion. 



2. Grants of Literature. 



■ Grants of literature have been made to a few societies 

 engaged in missionary work in India, and to some societies 

 in England, whose work is benefited in the same way. More 

 could be done in this direction if the Institute had funds 

 at their disposal for the purpose. The Council specially 

 commend this side of their work to Members and Associates, as 

 the need in India, China and Japan is extraordinarily great at 

 the present time. Where modern Education is conducted on 

 a non-religious basis in non-Christian lands. Agnosticism is 

 almost inevitable, and to meet this claim upon the Christian 

 Church, those papers read before the Institute which are appro- 

 priate should be translated into the languages of the East and 

 circulated largely amongst the student classes. 



