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The President delivered his annual Address, in which he 
reviewed the operations of the Club and its various sections 
during the past year, and at its conclusion a vote of thanks was 
passed to him for the Address and hig services during the 
past year. 
The President’s Address. 
Lapres anp GENTLEMEN, 
At the end of the twenty-ninth year of our exist- 
ence it again becomes the President's duty to review the pro- 
ceedings of the past twelve months. Our present strength is 
229 members ; 24 new members have been elected, and 18 have 
resigned. There has been no thinning of our ranks through 
death. Of the 24 new members, no less than 11 were already 
contributors to our Meteorological work. 
Taking the several meetings and excursions in chronological 
order, we find that on Jan. 18th the Annual Meeting was held, 
a report of which, together with the Address of the President, 
will be found in the Proceedings in the last part of our Trans. 
actions. 
On Jan. 26th Mr. Lovett gave a demonstration, in connection 
with the Anthropological Section, on Primitive Fire-making 
Appliances, A large collection was brought down and explained 
by Mr. Lovett. Here is a list of them — 
Prehistoric Flints and Pyrites from Cave-deposits, J ersey. 
Early English, Dutch, German, and French Flint and Steel 
and Tinder Boxes. 
Flint and Steel and Tinder Pouches from India, China, Thibet, 
Japan, and Scandinavia. _ 
_ Fire-sticks from Central India, South Africa, Somali-land, and 
Arctic America. 
Bow-drills, Hand-drills, Mouth-drills, and other Fire-making 
Appliances in use by the Esquimaux. 
Compression Fire-tube used by the Shans of Northern Burmah. 
Various forms of Tinder and Sulphur Matches from England, 
France, Germany, Holland, India, Africa, China, and J apan. 
At the meeting on Feb. 15th, Mr. Campbell-Bayard, President 
of the Royal Meteorological Society, read his Annual Report of 
the Meteorological Section, of which he has long beer Honorary 
Secretary. This has already been published in our Transactions 
for 1897. 
Mr. J. Edmund Clarke read a paper on “ The Relation of Sun 
Spots to Rainfall, based on F ifty Years’ Observations at York.” 
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