double pleasure from the knowledge that they will also please our 

 revered teacher and master. 



The Chairman next called upon Miss C. A. Raisin to speak on 

 behalf of all the former students of University College who had 

 joined the movement. 



Miss Raisin said : — 



I wish that someone who could better fulfil this duty might 

 have undertaken it, but as I have had the great pleasure and the 

 great privilege of writing to my fellow-students, it seemed right 

 that I should do my best to give you some account of the answers 

 which were sent by the University College members. To do this, 

 I have to repeat what you have already heard from the Cambridge 

 repi'esentative. The proposal was received with strongest approval 

 and warmest sympathy. The letters were full of expressions that 

 it had the " heartiest wishes " of the writer, that it was a " most 

 excellent project,'' that the writer would be " most unhappy to be 

 left out of any scheme for doing honour to " our Professor. Again 

 and again, students write to express their feeling that this will be 

 " a very slight acknowledgment of the many pleasant hours spent 

 in the laboratory and on the excursions,'"' that they " often look 

 back to those pleasant times." Frequently, they suggest some of 

 the reasons for the pleasure which they received — that the Professor 

 was " so especially kind and generous in giving extra help." " His 

 courtesy and kindness to his classes must have led many to wish 

 that they could show their gratitude and affection in some tangible 

 way." ^' I am sure that any token from his pupils would be an 

 inadequate return for all his kindness — the great interest always 

 shown in his students deserves some tangible mark of appreciation 

 on their part ... no one in England in similar position merits 

 an expression of goodwill from his students more." " One can 

 never repay the kindness and help received ; but this may serve as 

 a token of our appreciation of the help, and of his readiness to give 

 such help, and of the thorough enjoyment of the work done." The 

 words speak not only of the pleasure but of the profit. One writes, 

 " I feel to have known him to have been a great privilege. I 

 think one leaves with a great deal more than Geology." Others, 

 of the " assistance and advice, both while attending the classes and 



