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ANNUAL ADDRESS 
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|1jjilosop|)it;i[ Sottelg of <®rtat Britain, 
Delivered at the Annual Meeting held at the Rooms of the 
Society of Akts, on the \UhJune, 1872. 
BY 
THE REV. PROFESSOR JOHN KIRK. 
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, K.G. 
PRESIDENT, IN THE CHMR. 
ROOMS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE ,8, ADELPHI TERRACE, STRAND. 
LONDON: 
(^ublisfjeti for tfje Institutr) 
ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY, W. 
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 
