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since, Mr. Praeger has told you, but that little incident of the 

 Science classes, the letter of Mr. Chew, and the surprise it gave 

 us, I just thought I would mention. Mr. Chew had seen clubs 

 in England totally unconnected with the Science classes, and 

 then he put the suggestion in the paper, with the result that you 

 know of. 



Dr. A. Smith-Woodward, Senior Secretary of the Geological 

 Society of London, said : — Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen — 

 It gives me the greatest pleasure to come here to-day at the 

 request of the President and Council of the Geological Society of 

 London to convey to you their congratulations on the successful 

 termination of the first half-century's work of your Field Club. As 

 you will judge from Mr. Praeger's remarks, it is especially 

 appropriate that the Geological Society of London, the oldest 

 Geological Society in the world, should send a representative to 

 congratulate you, because this Club has from the beginning been 

 most intimately connected with the progress and the success 

 of the Geological Society. It has furnished to the Society in 

 London many distinguished Fellows, some of whom, I am glad 

 to say, are living at the present time. In the early days Professor 

 Tate himself was called away from Belfast. He was very much 

 appreciated by the Society in London, and was appointed 

 Assistant Secretary. Subsequently he migrated to Australia and 

 became professor at Adelaide. I will not detain you long here, 

 but I should like to say one word of appreciation from personal 

 experience of the early classes of the Science and Art Department 

 to which reference has been made. Long before our present 

 elaborate methods came into being — it was in the seventies I 

 attended some of these classes and got my first notions of 

 Chemistry and Physics. We had no well-equipped laboratories 

 or special apparatus of any kind, everything had to be done by 

 ourselves from the simplest materials in the cheapest possible way. 

 This exercise, I think, impressed upon the students the facts of 



