OEDINAEY GENERAL MEETING.* 



Colonel Mackinlay in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following elections were announced : — 

 Member : — Rev. George Sidney Streatfeild, M.A. 

 Associates : — Rev. B. N. Switzer, M.A. ; Samuel A. Lawrence, Esq. 



DEATH OF THE LATE PRESIDENT, SIR GEORGE 

 GABRIEL STOKES, BART. 



The Chairman. — I will ask the Secretary to state that the 

 Victoria Institute has been represented at the funeral of our late 

 President, Sir G. G. Stokes, by Mr. Martin Rouse and himself, who 

 had been deputed by the Council for that purpose. 



The Secretary (Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., etc.) — I may 

 just state that in accordance with the resolution of the Council 

 Mr. Martin Rouse and myself attended the funeral of our late 

 distinguished President, which was conducted at the University 

 Church, Cambridge. I need not say it was attended by the repre- 

 sentatives of nearly all the Learned Societies of London, Cambridge, 

 and Oxford, and by the representatives of the former University. 

 The whole service was exceedingly impressive, and we were pleased 

 to have the opportunity of representing the Institute on that solemn 

 occasion. 



The Chairman. — We now come to the purpose for which we are 

 assembled this afternoon, viz., to hear Professor Hull, our Secretary, 

 read a paper. He has given us many papers in the past, and this, I 

 feel sure, will be of interest. 



^ Monday, 16th February, 1903. 



