62 MR. J. HASSELL 



Cardiff ; Lieut. Commander, A. J. Iverson, U.S.N., United States ; E. W. 

 Murray, Esq., J.P., Belfast ; G. A. Moore, Esq., United States ; J. S. 

 Mclntyre, Esq., Queensland; Lieut. Col. J. R. McCIurg, M.D.,Uuited 

 States ; J. D. Moody, Esq., D.D.S., United States ; F. W. Uther, Esq., 

 N. S. Wales ; L. G. Yates, Esq., D.D.S., United States ; Mrs. Lloyd, 

 Brighton. 



Hon. Corresponding Members: — Rev. J. 0. Dorsey, United States 

 Ethnological Department ; Rev. W. D. Ground, Scotswood ; Rev. S. C. 

 Adam, M.A., Wolverhampton ; Rev. W. T. Storrs, Sandown ; Mrs. E. 

 Finn, Brook Green. 



Also the presentation for the library of the following works : — 



" Proceedings of the Royal Society." From the same. 



" Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society." „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute." „ 



"Proceedings of the Royal Institution." ,, 



" Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society." „ 



" Proceedings of the Royal United Service Institution." „ 



"Proceedings of the Geological Society." ,, 



" Proceedings of the United States Geological Survey." ,, 



" Proceedings of the United States Geographical Survey." „ 



" Proceedings of the American Geographical Society." ,, 



" Proceedings of the Newport Natural History Society." „ 



The Chairman (D. Howard^ Esq., V.P.C.S.). — Before we commence 



the ordinary business of this meeting, I think it my duty to remind you 



that we have to lament, in common with so many societies which have a 



high and noble object in England, the loss of our revered President. 



There are few men who ever have been, or who ever could be, his equal. A 



man of birth and high position, of admirable intellect, along with which, 



however, he always preserved entire the simplicity which marks the faith of 



a little child, — one who laid all his gifts, and very great they were, at his 



Master's feet, and of whom it is perfectly true that he was not one of 



those who hardly enter into the kingdom of Heaven, because, though rich 



in intellect and possessions, he nevertheless possessed nothing, inasmuch as 



he gave up all to his Master's service — of such a man we can only say, that 



a life like his affords one of the noblest evidences we could possibly obtain 



of the truth of the Christian religion. For where else shall we find the 



motive for such a life, or the power which strengthened him who lived it, 



even in his old age, with a constant and unswerving zeal to carry but the 



work in which he was engaged ? The last time I saw him, feeble though he 



was, there was the same ever-young spirit which then, as always, showed him 



as living in his Master's presence ; and, although we have lost in him what 



