VICTORIA INSTITUTE, 
TRINIDAD. 
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1893. 
presenting the Second Annual Report of the Victoria 
J, Institute, the Committee of Management have to congratu- 
late the Members upon the steady, if slow and gradual, 
progress made during the year in carrying out the objects of the 
Institute. Some particulars of the origin and progress of the 
scheme under which the Institute was founded were given in the 
first Report of the Committee. We supplement these by the 
following observations : 
The Victoria Institute was founded in 1887 as a Memorial 
of the Jubilee year of the Queen’s reign. It was designed to 
supply a long-felt want in the public institutions of the island. 
That want was that of a central scientific institution for purposes 
not only of original research, but of scientific and technical 
instruction. The attainment of such an object was never lost 
sight of by the Scientific Association, which from its foundation 
in 1863 until it ceased to exisUiir~l .Ttnade that one of its 
aims, On the 10th March,. 
a resalu tion^fe^>assed by the 
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