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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

HELD AT THE HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1901.

The President,

Sir GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, Bart., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S.,
IN THE CHAIR.

The PRESIDENT.-Ladies and gentlemen, a telegram has been received from General Sir H. L. Geary regretting that he is unable to attend, and letters have been received from Captain Creak and Mr. Howard also expressing their regret that they are unable to attend the Annual Meeting.

I will now ask the Secretary to read the Report.

The Secretary, Professor EDWARD HULL, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., read the following Report of the Council :

1. In presenting the THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT, the Council has the pleasure of stating that the position of the Institute has been fairly well maintained during the past year, both as regards membership, the character of the communications read at the Ordinary Meetings, and the funds. The Institute has not been free from "those adverse influences" referred to in the previous Report, which have caused some Members and Associates to retire from their connection with it-due to increased demands on their income; and this influence has especially affected the parochial clergy. But in nearly every case where such withdrawal of support has been rendered necessary, the notice of resignation has been accompanied by expression of sincere regret, and of continued interest in the work carried on by the Institute itself. It were much to be desired that there was some fund available from which the Council could assist such persons in retaining their connection with the Institute.

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2. The Institute would be greatly aided if individual Members or Associates would endeavour to interest their friends at home, abroad, or in the Colonies in its work. A large proportion of our constituents reside outside the British Isles, especially in America and India; and the Annual Journal of Transactions serves as a bond of sympathy with this country, and from the variety of subjects discussed in its pages, serves to interest them in many of the problems of the day.

3. The following is the new list of the Officers and Council:

President.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., LL.D., Sc.D., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.

The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Halsbury, P.C., F.R.S., The Lord High Chancellor.
The Ven. R. Thornton, D.D., Archdeacon of Middlesex.

Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., K.C.S.I., F.R.S.

Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S.
Alexander McArthur, Esq., J.P., D.L.

W. H. Hudleston, Esq., M.A., F.R.S.

Professor Lionel Beale, F.R.C.P., F.R.S.

The Most Rev. the Archb. of Armagh, D.D.

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4. The Council regret to announce the decease of the following supporters of the Institute, among whom were many exceptionally prominent men in varied spheres of usefulness:

Sir H. W. Acland, Bart., K.C.B., M.; Rev f. B. Angell, A.; Rev. H. R. Bailey, M.A., A.; W. Bickford-Smith, Esq., M.; Rev. R. Collins, M.A., M.; Rev. R. Cooper, M.A., A.; John Deacon, Esq., L.M.; W. Forsyth, Esq., LL.D., Vice-President; the Hon. H. D. Ryder, Earl of Harrowby, L.M.; Rev. S. H. Kellogg, D.D., A.; John Napier, Esq., M.; Rev. A. Peache, D.D., A.; Capt. F. W. H. Petrie, late Hon. Sec. ; E. Quaile, Esq., 4.; C. K. J. W. Tyndall, Esq., A.; William Vanner, Esq., M. (Member of Council); A. G. Yeates, Esq., M.

5. The following is an approximate statement of the constituency of the Institute at the end of May, 1901:

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The Council hope that during the coming year an effort will be made to bring the adherents up to the number of one thousand. In this connection Members are reminded that payment of the entrance fee of one guinea is temporarily suspended.

6. Finance.

The Treasurer's Balance Sheet for the year ended. December 31, 1900, duly audited, shows the total receipt of £1,171 198. 10d., leaving a balance of £18 38. 7d. to credit of the Institute. The Reserve Fund of 2 per cent. Consols has been reduced by £200, which was sold out in order to meet the unusually heavy charge on account of printing. In order to bring this item of expense within more moderate limits, the Council decided to discontinue the issue of the quarterly numbers of the Journal.

Special. The Council desires to urge the great importance of all subscriptions being remitted during the first half of the year (Bye-law III, 3 and 4). Adherence to this rule. will facilitate the work of the Institute, and help towards removing any cause of anxiety to the Council. Forms for the payment of the subscriptions through a banker are used by a large number of Members and Associates, and may be had at the office.

7. MEETINGS.

The meetings of the Institute have been generally well attended, and the subjects dealt with have been of a varied character, as will be seen by the following programme. The subjects may be arranged under the following heads:

1. HISTORY.

"Report on the Proceedings of the Congress for the History of Religion," Paris. By THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, LL.D., M.R.A.Soc.

"The Wahabies." By Rev. S. M. ZWEMER, F.R.G.S.

"The Maoris' Place in History." By JOSHUA RUTLAND, Esq. "The Arab Immigration into South-east Madagascar." By Rev. G. A. SHAW, F.Z.S.

2. ZOOLOGY.

"Notes on Hornets and Grasshoppers." By Rev. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S.

3. GEOLOGY.

"Evolution from a Geological point of View." By Rev. G. F. WHIDBORNE, M.A., F.G.S.

"Time Divisions of the Ice Age." By WARREN UPHAM, Esq., F.G.S.Amer.

4. GEOGRAPHY.

"Visit to the Hittite Cities, Eyuk and Boghaz." By Rev. G. E. WHITE, Marsovaen.

"Ancient Script in Australia." By E. J. STATHAM, Esq., C.E.

5. ART.

"The Relation of Religion and Art." By Rev. T. HUNTER BOYD.
"The Sacrament of Divine Art." By ERNEST NEWLANDSMITH, Esq.
The "ANNUAL ADDRESS," by Sir ROBERT S. BALL, LL.D., F.R.S.,
Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University, on "The Origin
of New Stars," to be delivered this afternoon.

8. The Journal of Transactions.

The King, following the custom of Her late Majesty, His illustrious mother, has been graciously pleased to add the last volume of the Transactions to the Royal Library.

The thirty-third volume of the Journal of Transactions will shortly be issued. It will contain the subjects brought before meetings of the Institute and discussed, together with the communications received from Members in the country and abroad, who have added to the value of those discussions by sending in communications on the subjects considered.

The careful correction of the papers, discussions, and communications, by their respective authors, often involving repeated communications even with distant lands, and references to the views of other investigators who have made the subjects treated matters of research, is at times a cause of delay in the publication of the Journal containing them, but the result is to give the Volume of Transactions the character of a finished work. From time to time Members of the Institute and others have expressed their high sense of the value of the Transactions of the Institute, inasmuch as they contain, not the views of any one person only, but the well-considered opinions of many, resident in various and even distant parts of the world. This system gives a

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