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contributions, or subscriptions shall be considered as applicable 
to such Royal Personages, nor shall they be liable to serve in 
any office of the Society. 
8 Your Committee submit these recommendations for 
the approval of this General Meeting, in order to serve 
for their guidance in framing the [Regulations and Bye- 
laws of the Society ; which they propose shall be laid before 
a Special General Meeting of the Members and Associates, 
for adoption or otherwise, early in the next session, to com- 
mence in ‘November. 
Conclusion. 
9. In conclusion, your Committee beg leave to state that 
they have considered it undesirable to cumber this Report with 
the details of their various proceedings, or of the efforts they 
have made for the proper organization of the Institute, or tne 
advancement of its interests. The present meeting will doubt- 
less be anxious to listen to the Inaugural Address about to be 
delivered, which will form the real commencement of our 
public acts as an organized body. The First List of Foundation 
Members and Associates, enrolled within a year from the 
first proposal to found this Society, and before it has really 
done anything, may be taken as a fair augury of future pro- 
gress, and as a proof that the labours of your Committee 
have been crowned with some measure of success. 
10. Should this Report be adopted,— as your Committee 
venture to hope : — should their past acts be thereby approved, 
and their present status confirmed, as the authorized and 
regularly constituted Council of the Victoria Institute or Philo- 
sophical Society of Great Britain, with power to do all they may 
consider proper for advancing the interests of the Society, and 
for completing their own constitution as its Council, by adding 
to their numbers, choosing other or additional Vice-Presidents 
and Honorary Secretaries, or other officers of the Society ; 
and generally by being authorized to manage its affairs by 
engaging the services of paid officers or servants, hiring apart- 
ments, and making any other arrangements . they may deem 
advisable to promote the objects of the Society ; your Com- 
mittee, as the Council of the Society, will proceed with renewed 
zeal in this important work, and in enrolling new Vice-Patrons, 
Members, and Associates, on the terms already set forth. 
11. For the short remainder of the present Session, your 
Committee only propose that a few General Papers shall be read. 
