86 ANNUAL MEETING. 



I went up the Nile as far as Thebes, and four and a half years ago I paid a 

 short visit to Cairo, on which occasion I went to the Museums at Sakkarah 

 and Boulak, which have been referred to this evening. But at this late 

 hour I will not occupy the time of the meeting, but will merely move 

 the resolution that has been placed in my hands. (Applause.) 



The Eight Hon. A. S. Ayrton.— I have much pleasure in seconding the 

 vote of thanks, and I have no doubt I am correctly expressing the 

 feeling of those who have listened to the Address delivered this evening, 

 when I say, it is a most succinct and lucid statement, on a very broad 

 basis, of a wide and comprehensive subject, which has been presented 

 to us, in a graphic form, and almost brings in review the whole condition of 

 Egypt from the beginning of history to the present day, producing a greater 

 impression on our minds than if we were to travel through some of those 

 ponderous works which have been written to illustrate in detail all that has 

 happened up to modern times. Although it is some years since I have 

 been in Egypt and travelled up the Nile, I can fully appreciate the value 

 of the Address. 



The motion was unanimously agreed to. 



Dr. Porter. — I beg to return you my best thanks. 



Mr. H. Cadman Jones. — I have to move that the thanks of this meeting 

 be presented to Sir Henry Barkly, for having so kindly, at a very short 

 notice, taken the chair, in the absence of our valued President, the Earl of 

 Shaftesbury, whose absence through illness we all regret. As this is a motion 

 requiring no speech in its support, I shall therefore content myself with 

 having put it before you. 



Mr. J, F. France, F.S.A. — I have very great pleasure in seconding the 

 resolution. 



The resolution was carried by acclamation. 



The Chairman. — Ihis is not the first occasion on which I have occupied 

 the chair at a meeting of this kind, upon a moment's notice ; and I have 

 only to say that, however poor a substitute I may have proved for our 

 venerated and venerable President, Lord Shaftesbury, you will, nevertheless, 

 be disposed to accept the small service I have been called upon to render 

 on the plea that I have been enabled to free our President from a task to 

 which he has felt himself unequal. (Applause.) 



The members, associates, and their friends then adjourned to the 

 Museum, where refreshments were served. 



