ORDINAKY MEETING* 



General Halliday, in the Chair. 



who retired, before the discussion, in favour of 



Professor Orchard. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following elections were announced : — 



Life Associate : — Eev. Ernest A. Wright, M.A., St. John's, Hull. 



Associates : — Mrs. Stovin, London ; Rev. Prebendary "VV. Covington, 

 M.A., London ; William Hairis Best, Esq., L.E.C.P., London. 



NEW PRESIDENT. 



The Secretary (Professor ED^YARD Hull, LL.D.). — I have a 

 very important announcement to make, and one that I feel sure will 

 be gratifying to the Members and Associates of the Institute, as it 

 has been to the Council, viz., that the Lord Chancellor, who was 

 Vice-President for several years of the Institute, has accepted the 

 office of President. I will read the Resolution that has just been 

 passed by the Council, following a letter, dated the 23rd February, 

 1903, from the Archdeacon of London to the Secretary, stating the 

 result of an interview with the Lord Chancellor as requested by the 

 Council : — 



Resolved, that the Right Honourable The Earl of Halsbury, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S., Lord Chancellor, be hereby elected President of the 

 Victoria Institute, in succession to the late Professor Sir G. G. 

 Stokes, Bart., and the Council assures his Lordship of its unfailing 

 support, and of its high appreciation of the interest which, for 

 several years past, he has shown in the welfare of the Institute " 



* Monday, March 2nd, 1903. 



