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" Past Presidents — 

 " Thomas H. Huxley. T. Spencer Cobbold, M.D. 



" John Matthews, M.D. Henry Lee, F.L.S., &o. 



F. Coles. ■ W. H. Gilburt. B. W. Priest. 



M. C. Cooke. J. W. Goodinge. Jno. W. Eeed. 



Arthur Cottam. J. W. Groves. Walter W. Reeves. 



Frank Crisp. Henry F. Hailes. Jno. C. Sigsworth. 



Thomas Curties. Eichd. T. Lev^'is. J Slade. 



Edward Dadswell. Albert D. Michael. Alpheus Smith. 



Chas. G. Dunning. E. T. Newton. C. Stewart. 



F. W. Gay Fredk. Oxley. J. G. Waller." 



The President said that he desired to express his sense of the pleasure he felt 

 in taking part in these proceedings. Knowing from experience what the work 

 was in which Mr. Ingpen had been engaged, he could deeply sympathise 

 with everything which had been said by Dr. Matthews. He felt as much as 

 anyone how greatly the Club's present prosperity was due to the labour 

 and judgment of their Secretary, and was quite sure that in thus acting as 

 spokesman he only expressed what was felt by them all. He then, amidst 

 great applause, presented the memorial to Mr. Ingpen, with a farther 

 expression of the hope that the necessity for his permanent retirement 

 might not after all really arise, but that after a time his services might be 

 again restored to them. 



Dr. T. S. Cobbold said — Mr. President, I rise with very great pleasure to 

 offer a few remarks on this auspicious occasion ; and what few observations 

 I have to offer I have for various reasons preferred to commit to paper. 

 There are those, Sir, who have known Mr. Ingpen longer than myself, and 

 who can speak of the services he has rendered to the Club at a period when 

 this scientific institution was in a less flourishing condition than it now is. 

 I can only say that during the brief time that I occupied your chair I not 

 only admired but envied the skill, the tact, the discrimination, and the quiet 

 enthusiasm which Mr. Ingpen displayed in conducting the duties of his 

 office. His whole heart seemed bound up in the interests of the Quekett 

 Club. Sir, I am free to confess that there are some methods of getting up 

 testimonials with which I have no sympathy. Mr. Ingpens claims are of a 

 very different order. He has given us time that could be ill-spared ; 

 energies that might have been more profitably employed elsewhere ; talents 

 of no mean order, and perhaps not a little of his health and strength. We 

 have been benefited by these self-denying labours, and we should be want, 

 ing in common gratitude if we had not adopted some simple and readily 

 accessible means of expressing our grateful acknowledgments. Speaking, 

 finally, as one of the rank and file of the Club, I would add an expression of 

 indebtedness to the Memorial Committee. From the heartj manner in 

 which their appeal has been responded to, it is quite evident that they have 

 in their own gracious example succeeded in kindling into a flame the sparks 

 of gratitude which lay smouldering in the breast of every member of the 

 Club. 



