ANNUAL MEETING. 



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The Chairman. — Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you must have 

 listened with great interest to this terse, but very expressive Report. 

 It is most satisfactory to know that this admirable Institution is 

 making such steady progress. Its objects are so excellent that 

 everyone must sympathize with it, and it is very gratifying and 

 satisfactory to know that so eminent and distinguished a man, from 

 many points of view, has now undertaken to be its President. He, 

 indeed, has succeeded others of equal eminence in different walks of 

 life, but it is desirable and it is very satisfactory that he should have 

 accepted the office, and I hope, under his auspices, that the Institute 

 will increase and continue to increase and to develop for the useful 

 purposes for which it was founded by the late Earl of Shaftesbury. 



I need not attempt to make any further remarks at present, for 

 there is a matter of much more interest to you, viz., a paper to be 

 read by Professor Flinders Petrie. (Applause.) 



General Halliday. — I am asked to propose, Mr. Chairman, ladies 

 and gentlemen, that the Report which has now been read and which 

 most of you have in your hands, be adopted and printed and 

 circulated amongst the members and associates of the Institution. 

 It is, after all, but a formal motion and yet there is value even in 

 what is but formal. What we do desire and what we want everyone 

 present to do is to help us to spread a knowledge of what is being 

 done by this Institution, and to increase interest in it. Therefore, I 

 think I may appeal to all here present to signify their approval of 

 the Report as it has been read, so that it may be widely distributed ; 

 and, friends, you can all help us in increasing the interest which I 

 feel, and I suppose most of you here feel, to be due to the work 

 which is undertaken by this Institute. 



The Rev. Canon Girdlestone, M.A. — Sir Joseph Fayrer, ladies 

 and gentlemen, I am very glad to second this resolution that has 

 been moved by General Halliday. 



I think we have reason to congratulate the officers of the Society 

 upon the healthy condition of the Institute. 



I think there is one sentence which is most healthy — I mean the 

 sentence which has in it a remarkable air of novelty in the first 

 paragraph : " This satisfactory position of our finances is due to the 

 plan which has been adopted of paying all bills 9S they fall due." 

 There is such a sweetness and novelty in the phrase of paying bills 

 •directly they are due ! I am glad the Institute has adopted that 



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