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business of the Club so successfully. The thanks of the Club are 

 due to the editors of The English Mechanic and of Knowledge 

 for the reports of the proceedings published in their papers. 



Finally the Committee feel that the Club may look forward 

 with all confidence to the future. Enthusiasm and work are 

 the means for continuing and increasing the success that has 

 attended it from its commencement, and also the means of 

 enabling us next year to celebrate the Jubilee of its foundation 

 in 1865, by men some of whom happily are still with us to 

 note with pride the growth and vitality shown by the Club 

 they inaugurated almost half a century ago. 



