ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 
Monday, June 16th, 1879. 
The Honorary Secretary, Capt. F. Petrie, read the following ' 
report : — 
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Council of 
^Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society op 
Great Britain (7, Adel phi Terrace , London , W. C.). 
Progress of the Institute. 
1. In presenting the Thirteenth Annual Report, the 
Council desires to congratulate the Members on the position 
maintained by the Institute, in spite of those adverse in- 
fluences which have affected nearly every interest and society ; 
this is due, partly to the steady support of its Members,* 
and partly to the organization of the plan approved at the last 
Annual Meeting for extending the Institute's work in the 
United Kingdom, America, and the Colonies. (The success 
that has already- attended the initiatory efforts in this direction 
and the correspondence received have proved the importance 
of the object sought, which can now be carried out if the 
Society continues to be maintained in a thorough state of 
efficiency and its strength augmented by increased exertions 
on the part of individual members). 
One part of this plan was to secure the greater usefulness of 
the Journal of Transactions to country and foreign Members, 
and to afford them facilities for expressing their opinions upon 
the papers brought before the Institute prior to their appear- 
ance in the Journal. The arrangements made work well, and 
* Those withdrawing have, as a rule, continued to give an indirect 
support. 
