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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Monday, May 25, 1868. 
Charles Brooke, Esq., M.A., M.B., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the Second Annual Report of Council, which is as 
follows : — 
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of the Council of the 
Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society oe 
Great Britain. 
Progress of the Society. 
1. The Council regret that they are unable, in this their 
Second Annual Report, to congratulate the Members and As- 
sociates of the Victoria Institute upon an accession of num- 
bers during the past year, like that which it was their pleasing 
duty to announce at the First Annual Meeting of the Society 
a year ago. They regret this the more, because the work 
already done by the Institute has been unusually great for a 
new society to accomplish ; and the importance of the 
Papers read at our Meetings and published, with the dis- 
cussions thereon, has been generally acknowledged by 
such portions of the Press as give attention to the issues 
that unfortunately have been raised between the Holy Scrip- 
tures and certain theories in science. At the same time 
this marked success of the Institute, in all that regards its 
most essential work, affords us some consolation, and is a 
matter for sincere congratulation to all who have helped in so 
good a cause, whether as Subscribers to our funds, as Patrons, 
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