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10. The meetings during this session have been as well 
attended as usual, the Anniversary, and the meeting of the 
19th of June being held at the House of the Society°of Arts, 
the rooms of the Institute not affording adequate accom- 
modation. 
Publications. 
11. The Ninth Volume of th q Journal of Transactions has 
been issued, and the several quarterly parts for the current 
year will appear in due course. 
12. In the publication of the Transactions the Council has 
continued the practice of printing in full the papers read, and 
the discussions thereon, so that country and foreign members, 
although unable to be present at the meetings, may enjoy, as 
far as possible, the same advantages as those attending them ; 
and in many instances communications in regard to important 
points not taken up at the meetings have been sent m by 
country members. These, being added to the Journal, have 
enhanced its value, 
13. Lectures (in furtherance of Object Y.) have been given 
m England and Ireland by some of the members, the papers in 
the Journal being the basis of such lectures. One member 
in a North of England town (noted for the prevalence of 
scepticism therein) has been giving lectures for some 
time past, once, and sometimes twice, a week, to audiences 
of from 1,500 to 2,000. This member reports that he 
has found in the Journal exactly that which he needed 
for Ins work, and which he had looked for in vain 
elsewhere. — The Institute is also indebted to him for a 
considerable addition to its Library. — In Italy the papers in 
the Journal are translated and published.— In India, the 
Journal has been found valuable in work among - the Brahmins.* 
In America, the Transactions are becoming popular; and 
the impartiality of the mode of carrying out the investigations 
has attracted attention. 
14. The Hon. Local Secretaries have been added to, and 
their work is being supplemented by, the efforts of other 
members, and by two supporters of the Institute now making 
* The late Sir Donald McLeod urged strongly the need of extending the 
Institutes sphere of action to India, &c. See Speech at Annual Medina 
vol. vii. p. 180 . J 
