TRANSACTIONS 



CLIFTON COLLEGE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



MEETING, Feb. 10, 1871. 



The President in the Chau\ 



The first meeting for the term and year was held on 10th Feb- 

 ruary, in the Physical Lecture-room. Fifty-nine members and 

 visitors were present. The minutes having been read by the 

 Secretary, and passed, the President delivered an opening 

 address, of which the following is an abstract : — 



He said they were met that evening to inaugurate a new ses- 

 sion of the Clifton College Scientific Society, and he congratu- 

 lated the members on the vigorous way in which they had 

 already set to work. He hoped they were determined not to 

 let their zeal languish, but that they would make the coming 

 session the precursor of a long series of successes for the Society, 

 and a season of no inconsiderable pleasure and improvement for 

 themselves. 



Dating their sessions by terms, and not by years (as in most 

 associations of the kind), the President thought it could hardly 

 be expected that he should deliver a long ' inaugural address ' 

 at the commencement of each of those sliort periods. He did 

 not intend, therefore, to ask their attention that evening for more 

 than a few minutes, and he thought it would be better if he were 

 to confine his few observations to some topics connected with 

 the working and the prospects of the Society. He thanked them 

 very sincerely for the honour they had done him in electing him 



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