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By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read May 8th, 1917.) 



HOPE that the fact that this is my 13th Annual 

 Address to you as your President will not 

 be looked upon as unlucky, either for 

 myself or the Club, though the year has 

 been clouded by the misfortune of War, 

 in which many of our Members have lost 

 relatives and friends. I would offer to 

 them in the first place our deep sympathy. 

 We have again held only our three indoor 

 meetings, and the British Association, which has much resem- 

 blance to a Field Club, though on a larger scale, has this year 

 decided to entirely forego its Meeting, which was to have 

 been held at Bournemouth. I some time ago suggested that 



