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the entertainment (whicli tliey knew the Society itself could not 

 afford to do), and he might add that the authorities of King's College 

 had granted the use of the building for that occasion. He felt sure 

 that all present would show their ajjpreciation of this offer by express- 

 ing their hearty thanks to the President for his kindness. He wished 

 also to remark that it was most desirable that as large a number of 

 objects as possible should be exhibited by Fellows of the Society on 

 that occasion. They would perhaps remember that at the old soirees 

 of the Society they were chiefly indebted to the makers, but it was 

 hoped they would personally exert themselves on the next occasion. 

 The evening was that of the Friday in Easter week. 



The cordial thanks of the meeting to the President for his liberal 

 offer were then unanimously voted by acclamation. 



Mr. Jas. Glaisher, F.E.S., said it gave him great pleasure to have 

 the opportunity of moving the hearty thanks of the Society to the 

 President and Officers of the Society for their services rendered to it 

 during the past year. As an old officer of the Society, and one who 

 had been intimately connected with its working in former times, as one 

 who knew so well the qualifications of the gentleman who now presided 

 over it, and as one who had so long known and worked with its 

 honoured Secretary (Mr, Slack) and the genial gentleman to his right 

 (Mr. C. Stewart), he felt that there was no better person in the room 

 to make this motion than himself. When they considered the result 

 of the Treasurer's report, and the position in which it showed the 

 Society to be, that alone told them how faithful these gentlemen had 

 been to the trust reposed in them, and it was only those who had 

 similarly acted who could tell how much time and attention and care 

 had been given for the Society's advantage. But it had been a painful 

 thing to him to see in the Journal which contained their Proceedings 

 the kind of correspondence which had lately appeared there, and of 

 which he thought they might justly feel ashamed. In all parts of the 

 country he had been spoken to about it, and it filled him with regret 

 and pain that this should be the case. Were they not all searchers 

 after truth? Were they not all fellow-workers for the same ends? 

 And could they not, therefore, carry on their correspondence in a 

 friendly and kindly way ? Let him go where he would — to the British 

 Association, or Royal Society, or elsewhere — this matter was spoken 

 of to him with surprise and regret, and he would urge upon them as 

 a Society that they should by any means, at any cost, keep from that 

 Journal that bore their name every letter that showed the spirit 

 which he had so deeply deplored. He would further only call to mind 

 the many hours which the Council devoted to the Society's interests 

 when he asked that their services might be remembered, and that the 

 best and warmest thanks of the Fellows should be to their President, 

 to their Secretaries, and to the Council generally for their conduct of 

 the Society's affairs during the past year. 



Mr. B. D. Jackson seconded the motion. 



Mr. Glaisher having put it to the meeting, and declared it to be 

 unanimously carried, expressed the great pleasure which he had 



