VICTORIA INSTITUTE 



IMTORT OF THK COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1915. 

 Read at the Annual General Meeting, February 21st, 1916. 



1. Progress of the Institute. 



In presenting to the Members of the Victoria Institute the 

 Forty-seventh Annual Report, the Council would congratulate 

 them on the large attendances secured at all the Meetings of 

 the year. This has been the more gratifying as a contrary 

 result might well have been feared ; since the War has imposed 

 duties upon many which have prevented their coming, and the 

 increased difficulties of travel might well have deterred others. 

 The interest in the work of the Institute and in the subjects 

 discussed at its Meetings has been well maintained. 



2. Meetings. 



Thirteen meetings were held during the year 1915. The 

 papers read were as follows : — 



"The Life and Work of Homer." By Prof. D. S. Margolioutd, 



D. Litt. ; Laudian Professor of Arabic in the University of 

 Oxford. 



" Modernism and Traditional Christianity." By the Rev. Canon 



E. McClure, M.A., M.R.I. A. 



" Present Position of the Theory of Organic Evolution." By Prof. 



Ernest W. MacBride, M.A., F.R.S. 

 "Traces of a Religious Belief of Primeval Man." By the Rev. 



D. Gath Whitley. 

 " The Spectra of Stars and Nebula?." By Prof. A. Fowler, F.R.S. 



{Illustrated by Lantern /Slides.) 

 "The Determination of Easter Day." By Dr. A. M. W. Downing, 



M.A., F.R.S. 



"Astronomical Allusions in Sacred Books of the East." By Mrs. 



Walter Maunder. • 

 " The Zoroastrian Conception of a Future Life." By Prof. J. Hope 



Moulton, M.A., D.Litt. 

 " Mahayana Buddhism and Christianity." By the Rev. W. St. Clair 



Tisdall, M.A., D.D. 



