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ADJOURNED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
July 12, 1869. 
The Ret. Dr. Robinson Thornton, Yice-President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Reddie, Hon. Sec., read the Third Annual Report of the Council as 
follows 
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of the Council of the 
Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society oe 
Great Britain. 
Progress of the Society . 
1 . In presenting their Third Annual Report the Council of 
the Victoria Institute, while expressing their belief that the 
objects for which the Society was established have been 
materially advanced by the proceedings of the Session just 
closed, have still to express regret (as they did last year) that 
there has not been a greater accession of new Members and 
Associates. 
2. Shortly after the close of the last Session, the Council 
deemed it advisable to terminate the engagement with the 
gentleman who then held the appointment of paid Secretary, 
and to elect Mr. W. H. S. Aubrey in his place. The account* 
books and papers, which had been unsatisfactorily kept by 
the former Clerk (whose discharge was mentioned in the last 
Annual Report), have now been carefully examined and put 
into proper order ; and it is believed that the general business 
of the Institute will in future be conducted with due regularity 
and efficiency. 
