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ferred upon me in electing me as your President. If in fulfilling 

 the duties of that office I have given satisfaction, I must attribute 

 it to your kindness in overlooking that inefficiency of which I am 

 only too conscious, and which I have many times regretted. 

 Gentlemen, I now take my leave of you in that capacity by intro- 

 ducing my successor in the person of an old and well-tried friend 

 of our Club, Dr. M. C. Cooke. 



