XXXiV Annual Address. [February, 1909. 
This rapid and confessedly inadequate survey of the 
work of our ing the last twenty-five years 
proves to my mind conclusively that our investigators 
have not been idle, that, taken as a body, they have made 
solid contributions to the advancement of Science, and have 
thus justified the existence of the Society. It would be a 
mistake to suppose, however, that our work, though so exten- 
sive, has been from one point of view of so limited a character. 
The outline I have hurriedly sketched, takes no note of the 
need be, all devoted investigators of nd Nature in this 
continent, and, with their co-operation, let us march on in the 
path of progress. Gentlemen, I tha: ou sincerely for the 
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