8 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
to have contributed in what I know t© be a humble Way to the 
Society's work. * * * * * Such care as I have been 
enabled to bestow upon it has been amply rewarded by the kind 
co-operation of my friends in the Council during the many years 
in which you have been pleased to place and keep me in a respon- 
sible position, and by an unexpected and general act of attention 
and regard not long since, which I should be wanting in duty and 
respect towards you if I did not thus publicly acknowledge. [He — 
refers here to his portrait, which had been painted for the 
Society.] If all that remains of me at any future anniversary 
be the painted canvas, which does so much credit to the artist 
whom you voluntarily employed to do me honour, I still hope’ 
that that representation of me may look down upon a flourishing 
"association of men, whose appearance at your meetings will not 
be the mere inducement to spend a pleasant evening, but who will | 
employment of their leisure.” These last words of advice will, I 
am sure, be cherished; and these last aspirations will find 
responsive echo in the hearts of all who hear me. 
Mr. Clarke was a fluent and prolific writer, and his contri: a 
butions to scientific Societies and “periodicals, and to the ne 
_ paper Press were very numerous, over and above his many 0! 
_ reports to Government and an extensive private correspondence. 
_ This correspondence must at times have been burdensome, 
_ he was continually being applied to by diggers and amateur 
___ geologists for advice as to their pursuits, and for the identification 
“ of mineral specimens; and his readiness to aid all such to # 
_ best of his ability, regardless of the time and trouble inv 
earned the ogee of many, and a widespread popularity an 
_ the mining g sections of the community. 
bole 
Soven — ago there y was — in the Sydney Mail 
nt sie “ i geology, Leena slesietong and 
— of ee and the list was said to be far : 
