PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS, 



Delivered at the Annual Meeting, July 25th, 1873, 

 By K. BEAITHWAITE, M.D., F.L.S., &c. 



Gentlemen, — Tlie time having arrived at whicli I am called 

 upon to present to you tlie annual budget, my first duty is to 

 return thanks to all connected with this Club, for the kindly 

 feeling and friendship which I have experienced during the 

 year now closing, and to congratulate the members on the 

 continued prosperity which attends its progress. 



Among the hundred or more Field Clubs and Associations 

 of a kindred nature to our own, which exist in Great Britain 

 at the present time, I think in point of numbers we are only 

 surpassed by one, the Liverpool Field Club, founded in 1860, 

 and reckoning some 640 members ; but as I believe ladies are 

 included in their list, this may be the reason of its numerical 

 superiority. We may however safely conclude that the 

 Quekett Club at the close of this its eighth year of existence, 

 is in as sound and prosperous a condition as ever, for I would 

 remind you that with clubs as with individuals there are 

 periods of prosperity and decline, some going altogether to 

 the wall, and others dragging on an inglorious existence. 

 To the unceasing interest of a section of our members, whose 

 faces are familiar to us at every meeting, and whose readiness 



