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ANNUAL MEETING. 



I move that this report read by the Secretary be received, and 

 the thanks of the Members and Associates be presented to the 

 Council, the Honorary Officers and Auditors for their efficient 

 conduct of the business of the Institute during the year. I need 

 not add more than this, my strong appreciation of the way in 

 which Professor Hull discharges his duties with great enthusiasm. 



Mr. Woodford Pilkington, M.Inst.C.E. — Mr. President, ladies 

 and gentlemen : It affords me great pleasure this afternoon in 

 having been asked to second the adoption of this report. I have 

 attended with very great pleasure the reading of several papers 

 mentioned in this report, and I think that this Institute holds a most 

 distinguished and exceptional place in the Institutes of like 

 character, inasmuch as it takes up morals and ethics, and devotes 

 itself also to that very necessary work that a former speaker has 

 alluded to, the connection between science and religion, showing 

 the absolute truth of what is revealed to us in connection with 

 science in the Bible. I do not know of any other Institute that 

 devotes itself in a like way to that broad subject with so much 

 success as this does. I am certain that this Institute on that 

 account alone has come to stay and increase its members. 



It is not within the province of a seconder to take up much time 

 in seconding the proposal, and therefore this afternoon I simply 

 conclude with what I have already stated, and second the adoption 

 of this report and the thanks of the members which are included 

 in the motion. 



The resolution having been put from the chair and carried, 

 Colonel Hendley replied. — On behalf of my colleagues I thank 



you for the kind way in which you have received this resolution. 



We feel that the work devolves most upon the Secretary, but you 



can show your gratitude by increasing the number of members, by 



recommending the Society to your friends. 



The Chairman. — I have great pleasure in asking Professor 



Silvanus Thompson, D.Sc, F.R.S., to give us the address which he 



has prepared. 



