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of our community, and are instruments of scientific culture which 

 will leave their mark on the future of our people. 



" More directly as concerns our Society Prof. Threlf all's capable 

 services both in the deliberations of its Council and in the direction 

 of its affairs during his office as President challenge our gratitude* 

 His interesting and incisive discussions at our meetings and the 

 readiness with which he always responded to every appeal for 

 assistance in the more important movements of our Society, will 

 long be remembered by those who take any interest in its affairs. 



"I may be pardoned for making a personal reference to my own 

 indebtedness to Prof. ThrelfalL I wish to say that in so far as I 

 have been able to follow — a very long way off — in his footsteps 

 as a student of physics, it has been largely due to the stimulus of 

 his personal influence and the infection of his enthusiasm for that 

 subject of which he is so able an exponent. 



"Professor Threlfall, on behalf of the Royal Society, I offer 

 you our very best wishes for your future and the future of those 

 near and dear to you, and I beg to assure you that we part with 

 you with profound regret and with a keen sense of how much as 

 a Society we owe to you and to your ardent affection for Science." 



Professor Threlfall replied, " Mr. President and Gentlemen, 

 I thank you very heartily for the kind words which you, Sir, have 

 spoken and to which the Society has so graciously responded and 

 endorsed. If I may accept Mr. Knibbs' assurance as to the effect 

 of my feeble strivings on him personally as his reasoned opinion, 

 and not merely as an expression of his kindliness towards me, 

 then I can say that if I had done nothing else, my time has not 

 been wasted. 



"I should like to take this opportunity of referring to the great 

 assistance and encouragement which I have received from the 

 Poyal Society ever since I came to the Colony; I should like to 

 place on record my sense of the stimulus which I have received 

 from the Society, and of the profit I have had in attending its 

 meetings and discussing the things in which I am interested. I 



