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NELSON M. RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read May 26th, 1910.) 



OBITUARY. 



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7 T may not be realised by some of the more recently 



\^ elected of our members that this club 



was successfully carried on for the first 

 24 years of its existence without any 

 written rules, under the presidency of 

 my honoured predecessor, Mr. J. C. 

 Mansel-Pleydell. One of his excellent 

 maxims, which I have often heard him 

 enunciate, and which, as well as many 

 others, I endeavour to act upon, was that the club 

 should always shew its loyalty when occasion offered ; and I 

 cannot begin my address without expressing my sincere 

 regret, which I am sure is shared by every member, at 



