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REV. DR. IRVING,

PROFESSOR H. LANGHORNE ORCHARD,

REV. H. J. R. MARSTON,

MR. J. SCHWARTZ.

FROM SUEZ TO SINAI. BY A. W. SUTTON, J.P., F.L.S.

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The Institute's object being to investigate, it must not be held to endorse the various views expressed either in the Papers or Discussions.

VICTORIA INSTITUTE.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE YEAR 1912. READ AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, FEBRUARY 3RD, 1913.

1. Progress of the Institute.

It is with great satisfaction and thankfulness that the Council issue their forty-fourth Annual Report. They congratulate the Members upon the improved financial position as indicated below, and upon the additional net increase in the number of Associates during the year. This increased support of the Institute and its work is largely the outcome of the valuable contributions to its vital objects by the learned authors who have so kindly read papers on important and interesting questions of the day; but the Council desire also to acknowledge with sincere gratitude the untiring and successful work of the Secretary, to whom the good progress of the past year is chiefly due. The attendances during the year were greater than ever, and point in the direction of more accommodation than our own rooms afford being necessary.

2. Meetings.

During the year 1912 thirteen meetings were held. The papers read were as follows:

"The Greek Papyri." By the Rev. Professor G. MILLIGAN, D.D. (with Lantern Illustrations).

“The Conditions of Habitability of a Planet, with special reference to the Planet Mars." By E. W. MAUNDER, Esq., F.R.A.S., Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

"The Historicity of the Mosaic Tabernacle." By the Rev. Professor JAMES ORR, M.A., D.D.

"The Real Personality or Transcendental Ego." By SYDNEY KLEIN, Esq., M.R.I., F.L.S.

"Difficulties of Belief." By the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Down, D.D.

"Some Lucan Problems." By Lt.-Col. MACKINLAY.

"Archæology and Modern Biblical Scholarship." By the Rev. JOHN TUCKWELL, M.R.A.S.

66 Directivity of Life, as seen in the Structure of Plants and Animals." By the Rev. GEORGE HENSLOW, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.

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"International Arbitration in the Greek World." By MARCUS N. TOD, Esq., M.A.

"Miraculous Christianity and the Supernatural Christ." By the Rev. E. A. EDGHILL, M.A., B.D.

"The Influence of Babylonian Literature on Jewish Thought." By
the Ven. Archdeacon BERESFORD POTTER, M.A.

The Annual Address was delivered by Sir ANDREW WINGATE,
K.C.I.E., who took for his subject "Modern Unrest and the
Bible."

'Immortality." By the Rev. A. R. WHATELY, D.D.

3. The Journal of Transactions.

Volume XLIV of the Institute's Transactions was issued at the end of October, and the Editor has received many expressions of pleasure and satisfaction from Members and Associates. There are 346 pages devoted to the papers, discussions and communications of the year, December 1911 to June 1912, against 307, 299 and 231 of the three preceding years.

The increase is largely in the reports of the discussions. The Council are sure that Members and Associates will appreciate this additional matter, although it adds considerably to the expenses of the year.

The new index is, this time, bound up with the volume. No alterations have been made in that published a year ago, but the contents of this volume (which are all that might have been added), are to be found together at the end, and are conveniently placed for reference.

4. Council and Officers.

The following is the list of the Council and Officers for the year 1912:—

President.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Halsbury, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.

Vice-Presidents.

Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., K.C.M.G.

David Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S. (Trustee).

Right Hon. Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., LL.D.

Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. L. Geary, R.A., K.C.B.

Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.

Rev. Canon R. B. Girdlestone, M. A.

General Halliday.

5. Election of Council and Officers.

In accordance with the rules the following members of the Council retire by rotation, but offer themselves and are nominated by the Council, for re-election:

The Rev. Chancellor Lias.

The Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair.

Dr. T. G. Pinches.

The Rev. J. Tuckwell.

The Right Rev. Bishop Welldon.

6. Obituary.

The Council regret to announce the deaths of the following Members and Associates during the year:—

The Rev. W. W. Adams, D.D., The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, B.A., W. D. Cruddas, Esq., D.L., J.P., The Very Rev. Dean Chambré, The Rev. J. J. Coxhead, M.A., The Rev. J. L. Darling, T. Garnett, Esq., Dr. J. S. Phené and F. Beresford Wright, Esq.

7. New Members and Associates.

The following are the names of new Members and Associates elected up to the end of the year 1912 :

MEMBERS.--Rev. Evan H. Hopkins, Walter Henty, Esq., Mrs. Brocklebank, Sir Robert Anderson, K.C.B., Sidney Collett, Esq., Frank Challis, Esq., M.A., R. Maconachie, Esq., B.A., Charles S. Campbell, Esq., B.A., I.C.S., Rev. J. Iverach Munro, M.A., A. W. Oke, Esq., LL.M., Rev. David Baron.

ASSOCIATES.-Rev. J. Stuart Holden, Miss Nugent, H. R. Wyatt, Esq., Dowager Lady Pearce, Vernon Roberts, Esq., Mrs. C. S. Hogg, Prof. W. Bancroft Hill, Sir W. Mackworth Young, K.C.S.I., Miss C. Bramwell, Charles H. F. Major, Esq., Thomas A. Stewart, Esq., Mrs. G. Barbour, Miss Morier, Rev. D. A. Stewart, G. W. Maunder, Esq., Major H. J. H. de Vismes, Rev. J. A. Douglas, B.D., Charles E. Caesar, Esq., The Honble. G. G. Waldegrave, B.A., Miss Barker, F. R. S. Balfour, Esq., M.A., W. H. Plaister, Esq., M.R.C.S., Sir Andrew Wingate, K.C.I.E., J. B. P. Karslake, Esq., MA., George Cartwright, Esq., John Scott, Esq., J.P., Rev. J. U. N. Bardsley, M.A., Miss F. A. Yeldham, B.Sc., Rev. J. Ridley, Henry P. Rudd, Esq., Rev. C. H. W. Johns, Litt. D., W. Duncan White, Esq.

MISSIONARY ASSOCIATE.-Professor Hechler.

8. Numbers of Members and Associates.

The following statement shows the number of supporters of the Institute at the end of December, 1912

showing a net increase, after allowing for deaths and

retirements, of 16 on last year's return.