ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS, 



Delivered l^ili June, 1873, ly the Eev W. B. Clarke, M.A., 



F.G.S., F.B.G.S.,4c., Vice- President. 



Gentlemen op the Eotal Soctett, — 



The last, an introductory meeting, held on the 30th 

 May, in which we were interested and instructed by the exhibition 

 of numerous most ingenious and valuable instruments in the ser- 

 vice of spectroscopic and electric science, very ably described by 

 Professor Smith, reduced the amount of necessary ofiicial work 

 which would otherwise have occupied us this evening. Before I 

 proceed to address you on the various topics which I propose to 

 bring to your notice, I must paixse, in order to congratulate you 

 on the improved condition of our finances, and on the absence of 

 such losses by deaths of associates and friends of our Society as 

 it was my painful duty to introduce into the Anniversary Address 

 of 1872. 



We have, however, to regret the departure of one who was 

 only this morning laid in his grave— the President of the Legis- 

 lative Council, Sir Terence Aubrey Murray, — whose tastes were 

 literary and scientific, and whose name will now disappear from 

 the list of our members. To him, as a friend, who took an 

 interest in my own pursuits, with whom I have been officially 

 associated in advancing the Industrial Progress of the Colony, 

 and to whom I owe many personal attentions, I would desire to 

 record this brief tribute "«j memoriam.''^ 



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