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Euwln Koek, 



Honorary Treasurer 



The President's Address. 



Grentlenien, I shall not trespass upon your time and attention 

 for more than a very few minutes this evening. I would not con- 

 sent to the proposal that an Address from the President should be 

 announced as part of the programme for this meeting, for I felt 

 doubtful whether I had anything to say, and sure that the very 

 few words I might desire to speak would not deserve to be called 

 an Address. But I find I cannot make up my mind to retire from 

 the honourable position which your kindness entrusted to me for 

 the second time a year ago, without a last word. You have heard 

 the history of the past year, and the present financial position of 

 the Society in the reports just read by the Secretary and the Trea- 

 surer. They give us reason, I think, to be satisfied with the work 

 already done, and to hope that there is a future for our Society 

 which is full of promise. The fact that three numbers of the 

 Journal, all containing most valuable contributions to the general 

 knowledge of this part of the world in which we live, and the races 

 inhabiting it, have been already produced, and that a fourth num- 

 ber is in progress, shews very plainly that such a Society as ours 

 was wanted in the Straits. Seeing how much information has come 

 in since the creation of a proper organization for receiving and 

 recording it makes one reflect with pain and regret upon the num- 

 ber of possible contributors to the special branches of knowledge 

 the Society seeks to advance who have passed away " mute and 

 inglorious " for the lack of such an organization. And from the 

 same cause, I doubt not, much valuable matter which had been 



