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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Monday, May 27, 1867. 
The Rey. Walter Mitchell, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Chairman. — Our proceedings at the First General Meeting of the 
Institute, held on the 24th May last year, being printed in our Journal of 
Transactions , the first business I have to bring before this meeting is, to 
submit for approval the First Annual Report of the Council, which I now 
request the honorary secretary to read to you. 
Mr. Reddie then read the Council’s report, as follows : — 
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of the Council of the 
Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of 
Great Britain. 
Progress of the Society. 
1. The Council have much satisfaction in laying before the 
Members and Associates of the Victoria Institute their First 
Annual Report of the progress and operations of the Society 
during the first year of its existence. At the first General 
Meeting of the Institute, held on 24th May, 1866, to inaugu- 
rate its proceedings, the Provisional Committee reported that 
192 Members and Associates had joined. Since then, 99 
Members and Associates have been added, up to the 1st of this 
month, according to the printed lists now before the meeting, 
consisting of the following various classes, viz. : — 
On the Foundation Lists. 
2 Vice-Patrons and Life Members. 
13 Life Members. 
227 Annual Members. 
3 Life Associates, 2nd class. 
13 1st class Associates. 
24 2nd „ do. 
282 Total on the Foundation Lists. 
