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members of the Society, Mr. J. E. Haselwood, set himself to 
make the audience realize what was involved in a secretaryship 
which contained fifty years of solid work,—the amount of writing, 
of attendance at meetings, and all the other routine. All the 
time Alderman Clark had been unfailing in courtesy and good 
temper. But for the care he had bestowed on the finances, the 
Society would have been dead many years ago. He had had to 
look after excursions and soirées, and other incidents of the work. 
Alderman Clark had in fact been of inestimable service to a 
Society which Mr. Haselwood felt had an important bearing on 
the intellectual development and social enjoyment of so many 
people in the town, and thereby had been of material service to 
the town itself. In handing Alderman Clark the salver, Mr. 
Haselwood assured him that it carried with it a vast amount of 
sincere affection. 
The salver bore an inscription, and with it came the vellum 
bound album containing the names of seventy-nine subscribers 
and the following address : 
Dear Sir,—This album contains the names of past and present 
members of the Brighton and Hove Natural History and Philosophical 
Society, who desire to make some recognition of your seryices for the 
period of fifty years during which you have acted as Honorary Secretary 
to the Society. So long a service in an honorary position is a very rare 
and probably unprecedented circumstance in the history of any Society. 
In addition we recall that in the general management of the Society and 
in all your relations with its members you have always shown the 
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, 
Waurter Harrison, President. 
Received with enthusiastic applause, Alderman Colbatch 
Clark made a happy response in a finished speech and with a 
sturdiness of manner that showed he is very far yet from feeling 
the wearing effects of so long a service. He made very modest 
allusion to his own work for the Society, but rather directed 
attention to the work of the Society, and to assuring his hearers 
that he had benefited immensely by his association with it. He 
supposed that the fifty years in which he had been connected 
with this scientific Society had been the most eventful half- 
century in the history of science; in no other period had it made 
such great strides. Thanks to his association with the Society, 
he had been able to take an interest in the scientific progress and 
to realise what it meant in a way that, without the Society, would 
have been impossible. He could not, of course, attempt to 
outline the changes in science that he had known, but there were 
