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THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 
GENTLEMEN, 
Ir is a great pleasure to be able to congratulate the 
Society on another year of prosperity. I need add no words 
on this subject to the Report of the Council. 
The thoughts of prosperity and stability are inevitably 
associated with the memory of one who worked long and hard 
to secure these advantages for us, of one whose death in the 
midst of his official work will always invest the past year with 
peculiar pathos. All that has been gained by the devotion of 
our late Treasurer will, we know full well, be preserved for us 
by the care and skill of his successor, who most kindly con- 
sented to come forward and help us, almost without notice. 
I am sure that you will wish to express special gratitude to 
Mr. Albert H. Jones for his services to the Society under 
circumstances of great difficulty and sorrow. 
The loss of so important an officer as the Senior Secretary is 
a serious event in the history of any Society, and in the retire- 
ment of Mr. Herbert Goss we are losing one who has served as an 
otticer for the record-breaking period of fifteen years. He first 
entered the Council in January 1885, and was almost at once 
induced to accept the Secretaryship, holding the position from 
1885 to 1897. The Society, however, could not assent to his 
permanent withdrawal, and in January 1901 he was again 
elected to the office which he held until his retirement on the 
present occasion. We shall greatly miss his genial presence 
from the official chair, as well as the advancement of the 
interests of the Society which his position enabled him to 
promote so successfully. Our warmest wishes go with him: we 
know that the feelings which prompted him to do so much for 
our community in office will still remain the same out of office, 
and that the Society has no more loyal member or truer 
