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means of accomplishing much original work, which has secured for it a foremost place 

 among kindred societies throughout the kingdom. 



In 1885 you were elected to the office of Vice-President, and in 1887 to that of 

 President, positions which you filled with much honour to yourself and satisfaction to 

 the members. 



In accordance with the rules of the Club, you this evening vacate the office of 

 President, and in recognition of your long and valued official career, the members avail 

 themselves of the opportunity of asking your kind acceptance of this Address and 

 accompanying Portrait as testifying in some degree to their appreciation of your 

 services, so long and so willingly rendered $ and they also express the hope that they 

 may long enjoy the advantages of your counsel and co-operation. 

 We are, dear Sir, Your Sincere Friends, 

 Signed on behalf of the members, 



William Gray, President, 

 John Vinycomb, Vice-President. 

 William Swanston, ) 

 F. W. Lockwood, f Honorar y Secretaries. 



S. A. Stewart, Treasurer. 

 John J. Andrew, 

 George Donaldson, 

 John Donaldson, 

 William A. Firth, 

 John Hamilton, 

 Daniel M'Kee, 

 R. Lloyd Praeger, 

 Robert J. Welch, 

 Joseph Wright, 

 The Museum, 29th April, 1889. 



Committee. 



REPLY. 



Mr, President, Ladies, and Gentlemen, — It is with feelings of much pleasure 

 and gratitude that I accept your Address and Presentation, and tender to you my 

 sincere thanks for the kindness which prompted you to recognise in this manner my 

 connection with the Club, and for the very flattering terms in which you refer to it. 



The intimation that the arrangement to confer this honour upon me had been 

 completed, and the request that I should give sittings to Mr. Ernest E. Taylor for the 

 Portrait which accompanies the Address, came upon me most unexpectedly, as I was 

 not conscious of having done anything to merit such a mark of your esteem. Any 

 services which I have been able to render to the Club have not been the result of 

 individual efforts on my part, but simply those of one of an earnest, active staff of 

 office-bearers, each cordially co-operating for the advancement of the Club's interests 

 and for the promotion of the objects for which it was founded. To their united 

 efforts, much more than to mine, belongs the credit of placing the Club in the 

 position it now occupies. 



