SptiitQ laming, %m, 



THE PEESIDENT'S ADDEESS. 



rpHE remarks which. I have the honour of addressing to yon 

 -1- to day may very properly be fewer in extent and more 

 limited to the incidents of our affairs than a year ago. There 

 are before yon several papers of great interest, and as I am 

 unavoidably summoned elsewhere before the conclusion of 

 the meeting (although I hope to rejoin you later), I will take 

 leave to listen with you, while I may, and not occiipy you 

 like those talkers who perceive brevity to be the soul of wit — 

 in other men. 



But there is in truth little to narrate. A President who sets 

 out with prophecies may easily find, as he slides into a chronicler, , 

 that such prophecies take long to fulfil, while the record of a year 

 all goes into a few lines. But quiet periods are not always 

 unfruitful. 



Eut to our chronicle. The sad part of it alwaj^s comes first. 

 We have marked the flight of time by losing from our neighbour- 

 hood the honoured widow of one to whose services the Institution 

 owes more than to those of any one other person. So I am 

 assured by the only person who could contest that honour. 

 We have lost Mrs. W. M. Tweedy. 



We have lost, also, the hospitable genial man, whose old home, 

 and the old name transferred to him, associates Cornwall with 

 days when quiet Eowey sent out a great contingent of ships to 

 meet the Armada, and the yet older days when Poictiers was won, 

 and its shield became our shield, and the Black Prince lodged 

 in his own Cornish castle. We have lost Dr. Trefi'ry of Place. 



