one or two things in which he had a direct personal interest, 
great discoveries whose shadows had been projected on his earlier 
days in a way that made the later substantial realization of great 
interest to him. He remembered how, when the electric tele- 
graph was a new thing of which all were talking, a gentleman 
assured him that in some future day people would send electric 
messages without wires. Sixty-one years ago he went to a 
lecture where the lecturer said he believed it would be quite 
possible to convert electricity into motive force, but that the 
force would be of little practical use because one could not make 
sufficient electricity. He thought of this when he saw the huge 
machinery thundering at the Corporation works. A third modern 
discovery projected across his early days was the theory of 
bacteria. Alderman Clark drew attention to the fact that two of 
the original members of the Society are still alive in Mr. G. de 
Paris and Mr. Barclay Phillips. This salver was not the first 
presentation the Society had made him. Thirty-five years ago 
they presented him with a clock; ‘‘it is still going.” Alderman 
Clark added that he could not have done the work so long had 
not the Society given him so valuable an assistant in Mr. Henry 
Cane. 
The Chairman (Dr. Harrison), in adding his tribute of 
praise, reminded the meeting of the work Alderman Clark did 
apart from the Society. His townspeople elected him to the 
Council ; the Council elected him an Alderman; and the State 
recognized his value by making him a J.P. 
Other testimony of praise came from four previous Presi- 
dents of the Society,—Mr. E. Alloway Pankhurst, as representing 
physical science; Mr. D. E. Caush, as representing the micro- 
scopic side; Mr. Clarkson Wallis, representing, in his own words, 
the amateur in Science; and Mr. Henry Davey, from the 
philosophical side. Mr. Davey pointed out that Alderman Clark 
had seen six or seven Scientific Secretaries and thirty-three 
Presidents. 
A letter was read from Councillor Booth, who said that he 
had known Alderman Clark from childhood, and could testify 
that he deserved all good things from his fellow townsmen. 
The salver, it should be mentioned, was executed in effective 
style by the Sussex Goldsmiths and Silversmiths’ Company, 
Castle Square, Brighton, and the illuminated album was the 
artistic work of Miss Hudson, at the Brighton School of Art. 
