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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
These gentlemen were of great assistance, and by their 
regular attendance at meetings facilitated the work of the 
Board. 
On the 4th September the Board appointed the following 
Committees : — 
Building and General Business Committee : 
Sir J ohn Goldney, President, 
Hon’ble Colonel Wilson, C.M.G., 
Mr. Guppy, 
Professor Carmody, 
Mr. Devenish, 
„ Tripp. 
Science, Art and Industries Committee : 
Sir J ohn Goldney, 
Hon’ble Dr. Lovell, C.M.G., 
Mr. H. C. Bourne, 
„ R. H. McCarthy, 
„ Tripp, 
,, B. H. Stephens, 
„ H. Caracciolo, 
„ J. R. Murray. 
The Vice-Presidents and Mr. T. I. Potter, Hon. Secretary 
being ex officio members of both Committees. ^ ’ 
The latter Committee prepared and submitted to the Bmr^ 
a Report on the Natural History Collections and on the forma 
tmn of an Industrial and Commercial Museum, which was 
adopted and ordered to be printed on the Proceeding of the 
Institute. ° 
The Board has recently lost an plenty i 
departure of Colonel Wilson from the Onln' 1160 ^ 61 ' ,b’ t * 10 
February, 1S97. In him the Institute A T the 4th 
original Members, and its Chairman during it^ early ye^s ° f ** 
At the Annual Meeting the President ^ e 
proposal for amalgamating the Trinidad Puhlie T .? ferred , to the 
Institute. Several meetings were held to Llbrar y with the 
and at a Special General Meeting of tlJ SCUSS V'® question, 
Institute held on the 9th January & 1897 1 “embers of the 
agreed that the amalgamation was desirable ^ unanimous1 }' 
