COMMEMORATION MEETING. 



HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, CAXTON HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, S.W., ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 24th, 1916, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the 

 First General Meeting. 



David Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Chairman : Ladies and Gentlemen, we will commence by 

 singing the National Anthem. 



The National Anthem was sung. 



The Chairman : I will now ask the Secretary to read the minutes 

 of the First General Meeting of the Institute. 



The Secretary : Before reading the minutes of the first general 

 meeting of the Victoria Institute, I should like to read one or two 

 letters that we have received from prominent members of the 

 Institute with regard to our Jubilee Meeting. First of all, let me 

 say that this morning one of our Members, in order to express his 

 sense of indebtedness to the Institute, and to signalize the fact that 

 we are now celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first meeting, 

 presented the Treasurer with a cheque for £50. (Applause.) I 

 venture to commend that to the serious consideration and imitation 

 of others like-minded. That is a very practical way of showing our 

 interest in the Institute. Those who are not as well blessed with 

 this world's goods as our generous friend, can still do something for 

 the Institute to celebrate the occasion — that is to say, those who are 

 Associates of the Institute should, if possible, become Members. And 

 all of us, whether Members or Associates, should try and make the 

 Institute widely known. One of the letters I have received is from 

 one of our Empire builders, Sir Charles Bruce. 



