xl INDODUCTORY PROCEEDINGS. 



The President: — You have heard the report, gentlemen. What is your 

 pleasure? 



It was moved and seconded that the report be accepted. 



The President : — It has been moved and seconded that the report be accepted 

 and that the resolutions be suitably engrossed and sent to the Past President. I 

 ask you to give a rising vote on this question. Those in favor will please rise. 



All the members present arose. 



The President : — As I knew it would be, the vote is unanimous, and I am sure 

 Past President Bowles will receive this resolution with a great deal of pleasure. He 

 has promised to be with us at our banquet to-morrow evening, and I trust you 

 will all be there to meet him. 



The next in order is the reading of the papers. I call for the reading by Mr. 

 D. H. Cox of the paper on " Notes on the Armaments of Battleships," by Sir WiUiam 

 H. White, K. C. B., F. R. S., D. Sc, D. Eng., LL-D., Honorary Member. 



Mr. D. H. Cox read the paper. 



