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defects and omissions in my paper will give you good opportunities 

 for discussion, which I trust will be free, and help to extend the 

 knowledge of the subject. 



At the conclusion of Dr Tyson's paper, a few remarks were 

 made by Dr. FitzGerald, Dr. Eastes, the Eev. C. Bosanquet, the 

 Eev. G. C. Martin, and Mr. Walton, all of whom agreed with Dr. 

 Tyson in his idea as to cremation being the best and most sanitary 

 method of disposing of the human body after death. Mr. Bosan- 

 quet and Mr. Martin spoke very strongly against the present 

 system of enclosing bodies in lead and oak coffins and placing 

 them in the ground, where their disintegration was delayed as 

 much as possible. Mr. Martin attributed a long illness which he 

 had suffered to the fact of his having attended a funeral at which 

 the corpse was in an advanced stage of putrefaction, and Mr. 

 Bosanquet said they all knew the peculiar smell which was notice- 

 able in old churches, which they were told was the port wine 

 consumed by their ancestors, but which they knew was something 

 very much worse. He added that in his own church there was 

 one grave from which he always fancied he could detect an odour 

 arising. 



A vote of thanks to Dr. Tyson for his excellent paper was carried 

 by acclamation. 



