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FIRST let me lament the catastrophe 

 which has led to my occupying the Chair 

 here in this City. Sir William White was 

 a personal friend of many here present, 

 and I would that the citizens of Bir- 

 mingham could have become acquainted 

 with his attractive personality, and heard 

 at first hand of the strenuous work which 

 he accomplished in carrying out the be- 

 hests of the Empire in the construction 

 of its first line of defence. 



Although a British Association Address 

 is hardly an annual stocktaking, it would 

 be improper to begin this year of Office 

 without referring to four more of our 

 losses: One that cultured gentleman, 

 amateur of science in the best sense, who 

 was chosen to preside over our Jubilee 

 meeting at York thirty-two years ago. 

 Sir John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, 

 cultivated science in a spirit of pure 

 enjoyment, treating it almost as one of the 



