PREFACE 



T the end of a year's work as Secretary to the Victoria 



Institute, in issuing the first volume of Transactions 

 which it has been my privilege to see through the press, 

 I would wish to acknowledge the generous support and 

 assistance which I have received from the Council and 

 Members ; a support which has been most encouraging, and 

 a friendly assistance which has gone far to lighten my labours. 

 In particular I take this opportunity of acknowledging the 

 untiring efforts of Mr. A. E. Montague, whose zealous work at 

 a critical tim.e has been of the Ofreatest value. 



The report of the Council, which deserves the most careful 

 consideration of all who are interested in the work of the 

 Institute, deals with the events of the past year in a manner 

 which obviates the necessity of any further preface to a series 

 of papers which from the interest already taken in them, and 

 the attendances at their delivery, would seem in no degree to 

 have fallen behind those of previous years. 



H. Charlewood Turner, M.A., 



Secretary. 



