Excerpt from The United Russia Societies Association Proceedings, Vol. 1 The President, after calling upon Mr. James A. Malcolm, Hon. Secretary, to read the notice convening the meeting, said that the resolutions had all been distributed, and had better be taken as read. (Agreed.) Mr. James A.

Malcolm, Hon. Secretary, read his report: Since the 24th March last year, when the first annual meeting of the Society was held, the membership had increased to upwards of 800 and they were now by far the largest Society of the kind either in the United Kingdom or Russia. He regretted the loss, through death, of Count John Tolstoy (formerly Minister of Public Instruction in Petrograd), of Mr. W. J. Birkbeck (a great authority on the Russian Church), and of Mr. Robert Yerbugh, M. P.

(Chairman of the Navy League), His Excellency Count Benckendorff, and Mr. Robert Porter, of The Times, who gave the Society so much invaluable assistance. In spite of the difficulty created by the War and other circumstances, the work of the Society had been carried on with continued vigour, and had been appreciated not only in the British Isles, but also throughout the Empire, in Russia, and in the United States. The Society had taken a nsus of 1400 leading educational establishments in the United Kingdom on the subject of teaching Russian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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