ANNUAL GENEEAL MEETING. 



HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 

 MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1903. 



Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.S. (Vice-President), 

 IN THE Chair. 



The Chairman. — Ladies and gentlemen, I think my first duty is 

 to apologize to you for being here, but the demand upon the time of 

 the recently elected President, on important matters in the House of 

 Lords, has prevented him from attending. The accident of my being 

 the senior Vice-President here, has placed me in the position of 

 having to perform a duty for which I feel very unfit. However, I 

 must ask you to accept me, as graciously as you can, as a substitute 

 for the very distinguished noble Lord who was to have addressed 

 you. 



I will now call upon the Secretary to read the last Annual 

 Report. 



The Secretary (Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S.). — 

 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, before I proceed to read the 

 Report, I have to communicate to you a letter of apology which I 

 have received from our President, the Lord Chancellor, through his 

 Secretary, for his absence on this occasion : " Dear Sir, the Lord 

 Chancellor desires me to say that he would have wished very much 

 to have occupied the chair as President of the Victoria Institute on 



