ANNUAL ADDEESS, 1871. 



BY J. T. ARLIDGE, M.D. (LOND.) 



ACCEPTING it as a rule of the club, that the outgoing 

 President do, at the annual general meeting, deliver some- 

 thing in the shape of an Address, I shall make no apology 

 in asking your courteous attention to the remarks I propose 

 to place before you. 



The subject matter of the discourse is left to the dis- 

 cretion of the speaker ; yet, at the same time, it is his duty 

 to make it relevant to the studies of the members, to 

 remember the particular occasion on which he addresses 

 you, and to endeavour to point out something conducive 

 to the interests of the club. 



My very learned predecessor in office, our most valued 

 friend Mr. Garner, took occasion in his address last spring 

 to insist upon the excellencies of natural history research, 

 and to enlarge upon the teachings of natural science as 

 illustrative of the great truths of natural theology. Were 

 I willing to follow in the same track I should find little 

 to glean in a field so fully preoccupied by him. 



Other matter to base a discourse upon would have been 

 the proceedings of the club during the past year, but the 



