VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 



REPORT OF THE COU:NrCIL FOR THE YEAR 1908. 



1. Meetings. 



The meetings of the Institute during the past session have 

 been well attended and the discussions keenly maintained. 



The subjects dealt with may be arranged under the following 

 heads : — 



1. Philosophical. 

 "Science and the Unseen World." By Dr. A. T. Schofield, M.D. 



2. Historical. 



a. Ancient History and Archaeology . 



" Discoveries in Babylonia and the neighbouring lands."' By Dr. 



T. G. Pinches, LL.D. 

 "Legislations of Israel and Babylonia." By Mr. H. M. Wiexkr, 



M.A., LL.B. 



" Life in a country town of Lycaonia : a description of the conditions 

 of Christian life under the Eastern Empire." By Professor 

 Sir William M. Ramsay, D.C.L. 



h. Contemporary Movements. 



" Christianity and Socialism." By the Ven. the Archdeacon of Ely, 



Dr. W. Cunningham, D.D. 

 "Authority." By the Very Rev. H. Wage, D.D., Dean of 



Canterbury. 



" Modernism, its origin and tendencies." By the Rev. Chancellor 

 Lias, M.A. 



" The present position of Catholics in France." Bv Rev. A. Galton, 

 M.A. 



3. Biblical. 



" Ezekiel's vision of the Divine Glory." By Mr. C. A. Carus-Wilson, 



M.A., M.Inst.E.E. 

 " 8 B.C. The date of the Nativity." By Lieut.-Colonel G. Mackinlay. 



4. Geographical. 



"Geneva and Chamounix, half a century ago and to-day." By 

 Professor E. Hull, LL.D. F.R.S. 



