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Lectures . 
12. An increasing number of members,, at home and abroad, 
use the Papers in the Journal as lectures, or as the basis of such. 
The People’s Edition. 
13. The selected popular papers published in this Edition 
are still sought for, especially abroad, where the republication 
of some of our papers continues. 
Sales. 
14. The sales of the Publications of the Institute have 
doubled during the past year. 
General Remarks. 
15. Four years ago the Institute called attention to the growing 
Scepticism amongst Europeans in India, through the large impor- 
tations of English pseudo-philosophical and quasi-scientific pub- 
lications of a class avowedly intended to promote Scepticism ; 
these are circulated among the Europeans and educated 
natives and systematically translated into some of the dialects 
of India. A large meeting, presided over by one of the leading 
members of the Institute, and including some natives, was 
held early this year at Madras, at which the necessity for coun- 
teracting such a state of things was discussed, and the secretary 
of the meeting took occasion to recommend as one means the 
desirability of making this Institute and its publications more 
known in India. 
16. Letters have been received from members and others 
in many parts of the world, expressing warm approval of the 
Institute and their sense of the great value of the Papers and 
discussions in the Society’s Journal , on account of “ their impar- 
tial character,” and because they contain careful examinations 
of those questions of Philosophy and Science which are said to 
militate against the truth of Eevelation, and which questions 
are used against it by its active and unscrupulous enemies, 
who are ever ready to avail themselves of the press and 
platform to attain their ends. 
17. Fully to meet the needs expressed in these letters is at 
present beyond the power of the Council, although they have 
done all they could ; it would need a greater number of 
members and a far larger People’s Edition Fund” than at 
present exists, to accomplish all that the Institute has been 
asked to do. 
