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February, 1908.) . Annual. Address. XXV 
researches in which members of our wn have been engaged 
during. the past. twelve months. I. donot. propose to enter into 
any elaborate review of the work of the Socidt ¥, nor. of the: pro- 
s of the different waren. of research with which our Society 
eals; such a review may more fittingly be made at the next 
annual m meeting, when we shall complete the first quarter of the 
second century of our existence. But before I deal with the 
subjects which hive engage! the attention of our members dur- 
fact, in the course of the last five years, our members have in- 
creased by very nearly one hundred. is is a matter for con- 
gratulation, and our thanks are due principally to the members 
of the medical profession who have joined our ranks and swelled 
our numbers. During the last twelve months, however, we have 
lost from our ranks seven Ordinary Members, two of whom 
deserve special mention 
the Society so ter back as 1847, and at the time of his death, 
had been a member for over 60 years. At one time, before his 
retirement from the country, he took considerable interest in 
our work, and contributed to our Journal and Proceedings a number 
of valuable papers on ‘ Meteorology ” and the “ Survey of India,” 
The present generation of members of the Society, however, 
would hardly recollect that he filled successively the offices st 
Vice-President and President long before some of us were 
It is not too much to say that his services to this connie will aie 
be readily forgotten, and his name will est in indissolubly 
our Honorary Mem apr weed lost two very dis- 
tinguished names: Lord Kelvin and "Bir Michael Foster. is 
unnecess r me here to dwell at length on the intrinsic are 
