ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, 



Mr. T. H. WALLER, B.A., B.Sc.Lond. 



DELn"ERED AT THE 



ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING, 



MARCH 4lh, 1884. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



I find myseK called upon to deliver an addi-ess, altliougli 

 your flattering re-election of me to tbe lionoiu- of the Presidency 

 of the Society has made my retiring only a nominal per- 

 formance, and might have been supposed to have obviated the 

 necessity of your listening to anything fi-om me to-night. 



As so many Presidents have clone, I have to acknowledge, 

 with gratitude, the kind consideration and assistance which 1 

 have received in the oflice, with tbe duties of which I was so 

 completely unfamiliar, fi-om tbe Committee and tbe members 

 generally, and remember with emotion that since tbe Annual 

 Meeting one to whom we then looked for the continuance during 

 this year of the kindly and courteous aid as Ciu-ator, which he 

 has afforded us in the past, has been removed fi-om among us. 

 In Mr. E. M. Lloyd's devotion to tbe duties be had imdertaken 

 we have each of us a lesson. Ever at his post at om- meetings, 

 as these recur we shall be constantly reminded of him, and 

 shall miss tbe assistance be was always so ready to give us. 



From tbe change which we have recently made in the 

 subscription to the Society we all, I believe, look for the means 

 of increasing its usefulness to the members in the study of 

 Natural History, and of spreadmg more widely among them tbe 

 results attained by workers in otbei" Societies of the Lniou. 



