ADDRESS 



OF THE 



PRESIDENT, after the AIlflYEESAET DIIIJER, on 

 FEBRUAEY 18tli, 1868. 



Gentlemen, — 



I propose doing what I did at our last anniversary dinner, 

 if it meets your pleasure, that is, reading you a short address, 

 which will not detain you many minutes, wherein I would 

 speak to you of the affairs of our Club, and what seems con- 

 nected with it, which I could not trust myself to do with any 

 precision or distinctness, unless the same were written down. 

 A social gathering like the present seems a fit time for 

 drawing the attention of the Members to anything which, it 

 seems to me, they might do in furtherance of the interests of 

 those branches of science which we profess to cultivate ; as 

 also it is a good occasion for ehciting hints and suggestions 

 on the same subjects from those who listen to me, after they 

 have been led in this way to give their consideration to it. 



I would first observe that w^e have reason, I think, to be 

 satisfied, on the whole, with the present position of om' Club, 

 however fairly we may expect more from it hereafter. It is 

 a matter, indeed, for congratulation that we are still a living 

 body, and that we continue to show signs of activity ; for not 

 all these Clubs have succeeded — some have died a natural 

 death within a very few years after theu* birth. 



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