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proposal, and as the President could not himself put it to the meeting he 

 wonld do so. Having put the resolution to the meeting, it was carried by 

 acclamation. 



Mr. J. G. Waller said the task had been committed to him of proposing a 

 vote of thanks to the President, Committee, and Officers of the Society, for 

 their services during the past year. As regarded the President, Dr. Cooke 

 had already taken the words out of his mouth, and he could add nothing 

 which more entirely expressed his own appreciation of his merits. Their 

 Secretary was one whose labours were too well known to need any 

 observations from him. The other officers well deserved the thanks of the 

 Club, and the Committee had always performed their duties in an admirable 

 manner, and he had very great pleasure in moving this vote of thanks to 

 them for their labours. 



The motion having been seconded, was put to the meeting, and carried 

 unanimously. 



The President said he could not forbear again expressing his appreciation 

 of the work done by their esteemed Honorary Secretary — so painstaking, so 

 punctual, so reliable, so business like, his services were of no common kind. 

 He felt he must thank him personally for the assistance he had received from 

 him during his period of office, and for the promise to continue to act as their 

 Secretary to the end of his term, although intimation had been given of 

 his strong desire to resign. He was also glad to be able to announce that 

 Mr. Ingpen bad consented to continue his duties as secretary to the end of 

 Professor Huxley's term of office as their President. 



The President then moved the thanks of the Club to the Council of 

 University College for the continued privilege of meeting in the library of 

 that building. He was sure that every member who was in the habit of com- 

 ing there must feel grateful to the Council for their kindness in this matter. 

 The motion was carried by acclamation. 



Mr. T. C. White said he had a pleasing duty to perform in proposing a 

 vote of thanks to the auditors and scrutineers for their services in connec- 

 tion with the accounts and the ballot. 



Dr. Matthews having seconded the motion, it was put to the meeting and 

 carried unanimously. 



The President said there was one other person to whom they owed a good 

 deal — in a quiet corner next the Secretary sat Mr. Lewis, their honorary 

 reporter, who from the first had carried on his work without emolument or 

 remuneration, and this so quietly that perhaps there were many amongst 

 the members who were not even aware of it. They all thought, however, 

 that the time had come when they might and would offer him some token of 

 their thanks, and as they felt that it would not be in accordance with his 

 wishes that they should draw upon the funds of the Club for this purpose, 

 the Committee and a number of the members had joined together in the 

 matter, and he now had the pleasure of presenting to Mr. Lewis a testi- 

 monial of their feelings towards him in the form of a gold watch, which he 

 asked him to accept in their name, and to wear as a token of their esteem 

 for the service which he had thus for so many years rendered to the Club- 

 The President then handed to Mr. Lewis a valuable gold watch, the case of 



