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ANNUAL MEETING, 



4. Historical. 



1. Review of Professor Flinders Pet)ie's recent work on " Sinai." By 



the Secretary. 



2. " Survivals of Primitive Religions among the People of Asia. 



Minor." By Rev. G. E. White, Dean of Anatolia College. 



3. "Mencms." By Rev. F. Storrs Turner, B.A. 



7. The Journal of Transactions. 



The thirty-eighth volume of the Journal of Transactions, like- 

 its predecessor, has been circulated in many lauds, especially in 

 the United States of America, where we have a large number of 

 warm supporters. As an example of this feeling of sympathy 

 with the objects of the Institute the following is an extract 

 from a letter to the Secretary by Dr. George H. Martin of San 

 Francisco, who has recently joined the Institute as a member; 

 it is dated February 16th, 1907: — 



" I am thoroughly in sympathy with the objects of the- 

 Institute, and have known of its good work for many years." 

 It was an agreeable surprise to receive this statement from a 

 city which had recently undergone such terrible vicissitudes. 



As stated in the last report we have several public libraries 

 which subscribe for the Volumes under the head of " Associate 

 Libraries." Of persons in foreign countries connected with our 

 Society, about 79 belong to the United States of America, 43 to- 

 India, 14 to Australia, 13 to Canada, and about the same 

 number to New Zealand and South Africa, and one (Public 

 Library) to Bermuda. 



8. Missionary Associates. 



At the Meeting of Council, held on the 21st January last, a 

 resolution was unanimously adopted granting the privilege of 

 associateship to missiouaries at half the usual subscription, 

 namely half-a-guinea, and the Secretary was instructed to take 

 the necessary steps for carrying out this resolution, and circulars 

 were issued to the leading missionary societies in London. It 

 will require time in order to ascertain to what extent this, 

 privilege will be made use of. 



9. Conclusion. 



While humbly desiring the continued blessing of Almighty 

 God, and the support of its members, the Council wishes to 



