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(Head April 29th, 1901.) 



has been my perennial lot to preface my 

 Anniversary Address with a lugubrious list of 

 departed fellow-members who had passed away 

 during the previous year. The last was one of 

 painful memories to me. It recorded the names of 

 one near relative and of two most intimate friends. 

 I commence this Address without one regretful 

 sigh, and dismiss the Year 1900 with hearty 

 congratulations, and thanks to God for the 

 many benefits he has conferred upon the nation, and on mankind 

 generally, during the 100 years which have rolled on within the 

 limits of the century. We hail the new year with hopeful 

 anticipations as it emerges from the ashes of the old one, and 

 trust that more and more of the secrets of Nature, from her 

 abundant store, which has been so lavishly placed at our 

 disposal, will be continued to us, and that we shall have yet a 

 more comprehensive grasp of her treasures, now stored by the 

 Creator for man's use. The Nineteenth Century will probably be 

 known in future ages as the century of science. It not only has 

 developed, but controlled the material forces of Nature. Steam will 



