PROCEEDINGS 



HARROW SCHOOL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



Tlmrsday, September 26tli, 1867. 



The Thirty-second Meeting of the Society was held at Mr. 

 Hayward's House. 



Mr. Hayward, in resigning the office of President, explained 

 that he had been unavoidably prevented from combining his duties 

 as President with those of University Examiner at Cambridge ; 

 regretting that he had not been able to mark his presidency by 

 the production of a report. He then vacated the chair in favour 

 of the Rev. E. H. Bradby. 



Balfour was elected a member of the Society. 



Parsons and A. W. Welch were elected members of the Com- 

 mittee vice Abbot and Davidson, left. 



A collection of moths and butterflies was exhibited by Mr. 

 Hewetson, and presented to the Society. 



The following Inaugural Address was read by the President: — 



There is a well-known sarcasm of Sydney Smith, which was 

 launched many years ago against that eminent living statesman 

 who was the author of our first Reform Bill. He wished to 

 describe, with a touch of ridicule, the undoubting confidence in his 

 own ability for the work with which, in his opinion, that statesman 

 would address himself to any task which came in his way, and he 

 said that no doubt Lord John Russell would undertake to com- 

 mand the channel fleet at an hour's notice. 



Now, gentlemen, I hope there are no Sydney Smiths in this 

 room. It is true that the Harrow Scientific Society is not 



