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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, 
Monday, May 29, 1876. 
The Right Honourable the Earl op Shaftesbury, K.G., 
President, in the Chair. 
The Honorary Secretary, Capt. F. Petrie, read the following 
Keport: — 
TENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Council of the 
Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society op 
Great Britain. 
Progress of the Institute. 
1. In presenting the Tenth Annual Report, the Council 
desires to state that the progress of the Society, due in no small 
degree to the personal interest taken in its welfare by those who 
have become its supporters, has been such as to encourage the 
hope that it may speedily be adequately powerful to undertake 
all it was designed to accomplish ; but that this hope may be 
realized, it is not the less necessary that those efforts which 
have placed it in its present position should not be relaxed. 
The average increase of Members and Associates during the 
past five years has been upwards of one hundred annually, and 
the actual number of additional names has slightly increased 
each year. Such progress has greatly contributed towards 
making the objects of the Society more widely known, and its 
work more telling. 
During the year, 1875, 115 Members and Associates have joined (18 
being foreign, 64 country, and 33 resident in town). 
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