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in 1851, was also distributed under the name of Grandis, 

 thus adding to the confusion ah'eady existing. For the 

 above details as to Amabilis, Grandis, and Concolor, I am 

 indebted to Yeitch's Manual of 1900. 



Since the foregoing was written, the agenda of to-day's 

 business was issued, and you doubtless share to the full 

 my deep regret that we are to lose in one fell swoop 

 our Editing and Organizing Secretaries. Mr Butler kindly 

 wrote me explaining his reasons fully, and stated that 

 it was solely owing to the pressing claims on his time 

 that he was forced to arrive at this decision. Under 

 these circumstances, I could not do otherwise than accept 

 his resignation, with great regret and a lively sense of 

 his services to the Club. With regard to Captain Norman, 

 he accepted the interim post when we were hard pressed, 

 and the Club thoroughly appreciated his disinterestedness 

 and self-sacrifice. I think that a resolution to that effect 

 should be inserted in our Transactions. Mr Butler, how- 

 ever, will kindly complete the publication of this year's 

 volume. 



One word more. A most interesting and sympathetic 

 memoir of our late Organizing Secretary appears in last 

 year's volume, but I should be loth to conclude without 

 availing myself of this opportunity of adding a few words 

 of my own in affectionate remembrance of one who, as my 

 brother-in-law, has been intimately associated in all my 

 life memories, from childhood onwards. It is only under 

 such circumstances that it is possible fully to appreciate 

 his sterling worth and qualities, his absolute unselfishness 

 and obliteration of self where the happiness or pleasure 

 of others was concerned. I can most truly say that I 

 never heard him utter one word in anger. I remember 

 when Sir George Douglas asked me to be your President, 

 one of the chief objects we had in view was that Colonel 

 Milne Home would probably continue to help me as 

 Organizing Secretary, a position he so admirably filled. 



