Proceedings. lxxix 
Address of the President, 
James Epps, Jun. 
Liapires AND GENTLEMEN, 
Tt has been the custom, I believe, in past years for 
the President to give a résumé of the work of the Club during 
the past year. I will not take upon myself the responsibility 
of entirely breaking this old custom, but will, in the briefest 
possible way, run through the past year’s work, after which I 
will, with your permission, read my paper, entitled “ The Life 
of Thomas Edward; the Great Scotch Naturalist.’ 
I now realize the difficulties of a President on such an 
occasion as this. It appears to me that he must not confine his 
remarks to any one subject, or he may be looked upon as 
favouring his special and pet subject at the expense of others ; 
so to get over this difficulty I think the best way is to take a 
general subject, which I hope will be of interest to the majority. 
We all started the year, I am sure, with the very best in- 
tentions—when is the time when we do not? What those 
good intentions have led us to accomplish, you will be better 
able to judge for yourselves a little later in the evening. 
At our first meeting, in January, your late and able President, 
Mr. Whitaker, retired, which I am sure we all regretted—not 
without first, thanks to him, clearing up the house and putting 
everything into shape. 
On February 19th I had the honour of taking the Presidential 
chair. On the same evening Mr. J. P. Johnson read a paper 
on neolithic stones found on the North Downs near Sutton. 
From his paper one could see he had been a most enthusiastic 
and successful hunter after these prizes. He exhibited numerous 
specimens. 
Mr. Bayard, as Secretary of the Meteorological Section, read 
his Annual Report (see Transactions, p. 1), followed by the 
Report of the Secretary of the Botanical Section, read by Dr. 
- Parsons in the absence of Mr. Mennell. The Report appears 
later in our Proceedings. 
On March 19th Professor Garwood, M.A., F.G.S., read a 
most interesting and instructive paper, entitled «« A Trip round 
Kanchenjinga.”’ The lecture was illustrated by a most beautiful 
series of photographic and telephotographic slides. The clear 
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