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express it great appreciation of the work he has done for its advancement since its 

 first meeting sixteen years ago ; also that it is the sense of this meeting that a 

 Committee be appointed by the Chairman to prepare and present a more formal 

 and complete recognition of his services, at the next meeting, which it is earnestly 

 hoped he will attend. " 



In the exercise of the authority conferred upon you by the above noted reso- 

 lution, a committee was appointed, composed of the undersigned members of the 

 Council, for the purpose of formulating and presenting to the Society at its next 

 annual meeting the ' ' more formal and complete recognition of his services ' ' con- 

 templated in the resolution above noted. 



At a preliminary meeting of this Committee it was decided unanimously to 

 submit the Committee's draft of the formal resolution for the action of the Society 

 at its forthcoming meeting on November 17, 1910, and to make immediate recom- 

 mendation to the Council that there be presented to Admiral Bowles, by his col- 

 leagues of the Council, as a mark of their official appreciation and personal esteem, 

 a suitably inscribed loving cup. This suggestion of the Committee met with prompt 

 and cordial response from the individual members of the Council, and it is proposed 

 to make the presentation of the loving cup to Admiral Bowles on Friday, November 

 18, on the occasion of the Annual Banquet of the Society. 



The services of Admiral Bowles to the Society of Naval Architects and Marine 

 Engineers, in connection with its formation and development, are too definitely 

 indicated in the proceedings of the Society and are also too well known to its individ- 

 ual membership to require any extensive enumeration, even for purposes of histori- 

 cal record. It seems most fitting, however, that formal mention be made of the 

 facts that he was one of the principal organizers and incorporators of the Society, 

 was the first Chairman of its Executive Committee, and served for a period of five 

 years as its Secretary, and more than five years as its President. Such a record of 

 accomplishment speaks for itself, and any added force which might be given through 

 formal expression by this Committee is believed to be best conveyed by quoting 

 some remarks made by the late lamented Commodore Loring, one of the founders 

 and original Vice-Presidents of this Society. These remarks were made by Com- 

 modore Loring on the closing day of the First Annual Meeting of the Society, in 

 proposing a vote of thanks to Admiral Bowles, and were as follows : — 



"Mr. President and Gentlemen : — There has devolved upon me the very 

 agreeable task of proposing a vote of thanks to one whose happy idea is responsible 

 for the pleasure and profit we have derived from the inaugural meeting of this 

 Society. 



"While individual commendation is, in general, to be deprecated, historical 

 accuracy is never amiss, and the first volume of the pubhshed transactions of this 

 Society would not be complete did it not contain a formal recognition of the services 



