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pleasures of science and literature, to the exclusion 

 of the grovelling, debasing pursuits, which too 

 often occupy the leisure of those engaged in 

 commerce, no association whatever can have more 

 entirely realised the wishes of its founders, or 

 answered more completely the purposes of its 

 Institution, than that, the Anniversary of whose 

 formation we are this day met to commemorate. 



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