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Captain Cooper Gardiner then moved the following resolution ‘‘That 
the report of the Council be adopted, printed, and circulated.” 
Professor Macdonald —I have much pleasure in being able to second 
the motion that has been made for the adoption of the report ; and I trust 
that the warmest anticipations of our excellent Chairman on behalf of the 
Council will be fully realized, and that we may have an increased flow of 
members to the Institute. (Hear, hear.) 
The resolution was put to the meeting and carried unanimously. 
The CHAiRMAN.-The Objects, Constitution, and Bye-laws of the Institute 
having been carefully considered by the Council, and printed copies having 
been sent to every member and associate, I think it will not be necessary to 
read them over now ; so, with your kind permission, I shall take them as 
read ; and I may explain, that if now approved and adopted, they will be 
printed in the appendix to the first volume of our Journal of Transactions 
which will shortly be completed. 
John Colebrook, Esq. — I have much pleasure in moving — “ That the 
Objects, Constitution, and Bye-laws of the Victoria Institute orPhilosophical 
Society of Great Britain, as drawn up by the Council and printed, be now 
adopted.” 
G. Crawfurd Harrison, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was carried 
unanimously. 
[The Objects, Constitution, and Bye-laws, as now adopted, will be found 
printed in Vol. I. of the J ournal of Transactions , pp. 476-486.] 
William Stewart, Esq.— I have much pleasure in moving That the 
thanks of the members and associates be given to the Officers and Council of 
the Institute for the past year. 
Professor Oliver Byrne said he had great pleasure in seconding the 
resolution, which was carried unanimously. 
Peter Robertson, Esq.— I beg leave to move that the following gentlemen 
be appointed as the Officers and Council of the Victoria Institute for the 
ensuing year : — 
OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FOR 1867-68. 
President. 
The Right Honourable the Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. 
Vice-Presidents. 
Philip Henry Gosse, Esq., F.R.S. 
Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A. 
Honorary Treasurer. 
Captain E. Gardiner Fishbourne, R.N., C.B. 
Honorary Secretary. 
James Reddie, Esq., Hon. Mem. Dial. Soc., Edin. Univer. 
Honorary Foreign Secretary. 
Edward J. Morshead, Esq., H.M.C.S. 
