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greatest tact, zeal, and courtesy, coupled with remarkable business 
capacity ; and we feel that the present prosperity of the Society is mainly 
due to you. Slight as any recognition we can make must be in comparison 
with your services, we venture to ask your acceptance of the accom- 
panying silver salver and our warmest wishes for your present and future 
welfare. 
Signed, on behalf of the subscribers, 
Water Harrison, President. 
Mr. J. E. Haselwood, a Vice-President, was the mouthpiece 
of the members in presenting these gifts, and he enthusiastically 
recalled the fifty years of solid work done by Alderman Clark in 
looking after the finances and business details of the Society. 
Speaking with forty years’ experience, he declared unhesitatingly 
that but for the careful watch Mr. Clark had kept upon their 
funds, the Society would have been dead years ago. With it all 
Mr. Clark had been always courteous, and able to smooth over 
any difficulties that arose Mr. Clark had done this, realizing 
that the Society was an important element in the life of the 
town which had been an influence for good in many directions. 
He had also played a prominent part in fostering the social side 
of the Society, and was for many years the moving spirit in the 
soirées, and in the annual excursions. In handing him the salver, 
he said its modest weight carried with it a vast amount of 
sincere affection. 
Enthusiastic applause greeted Alderman Clark when he 
rose to thank the members. In a happy speech he said it was a 
matter for congratulation that the Society had been able to exist 
so long, and he hoped the end of the present century might find 
it still flourishing. Personally he felt it an honour to have been 
associated with the work for all these years, though his duties 
had been of a purely business character, thanks to the wise 
arrangement of having another Secretary to look after the 
scientific side. He had had a great reward in the instruction 
and enjoyment obtained from the Society’s lectures, which had 
enabled him to understand the early developments of telegraphy, 
electricity, bacteriology, and the like, which were casting their 
shadows before them in the early days of his acquaintance with 
the Society. He recalled the interesting fact that at one of the 
first lectures he attended on telegraphy, the lecturer assured 
them that one day the messages would be sent without the 
medium of wires. Of the original members of the Society there 
were only now two living, Mr. Barclay Phillips and Mr. Geo. de 
Paris. He said, in conclusion, he would be proud to hand the 
presentation as heirlooms to his successors, together with the 
clock which they presented to him 35 years ago. 
The President, Mr. Walter Harrison, and four past Presi- 
dents, Mr. E. A, Pankhurst, Mr. Douglas E. Caush, Mr. Clarkson 
Wallis, and Mr. Henry Davey, supplemented the eulogies passed 
