61 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 
HELD AT THE HOUSE OP THE SOCIETY OF ARTS,* 
May 20, 1873. 
The Ret. Walter Mitchell, Ml., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Honorary Secretary, Capt. F. Petrie, read the following 
Report : — 
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Council of the 
Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Society of 
Great Britain. 
Progress of the Institute. 
1. In presenting the Seventh Annual Report, the Council 
desires to congratulate the Members and Associates on the 
continued improvement in the Society's position ; mainly due, 
first, to the firm and continued support of the members 
and associates ; secondly, to a considerable accession of new 
Members, among whom are several Professors of Oxford, 
Cambridge, and other Universities ; and also many well known 
in the literary and scientific world. Last year it was stated 
that “ a full review of the requirements of the Institute, and 
of the duties it is called upon to fulfil, has satisfied . the 
Council that not until the number of Members and Associates 
shall have been raised to five hundred (of which not more than 
one hundred should be Associates) can the Society's present 
sphere of action be extended and its objects fully realized ; '' 
and considering its present position, it is believed that if 
the members and associates will kindly co-operate with the 
President and Council in increasing the strength of the Insti- 
tute, this necessary number will speedily be attained. 
2. Three vacancies in the Council have been filled up by the 
election of John Eliot Howard, Esq., F.L.S., Iltudus T. 
Prichard, Esq., E.S.S., and the Rev. Gr. W. Weldon, M.A., 
B.M., E.L.S. 
* The Meeting was fully attended. Letters expressing regret at bmng 
unable to be present, were read from the following members The 
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Marlborough, the Bishop of Lon- 
don, the Earl of Dartmouth, the Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham, the 
Right Hon. S. Cave, M.P., the Hon. W. Ashley, Archdeacon Bickersteth, 
and others. 
