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Inaugural Address of the President, Captain Clarke, R. E,, 

 Survey or 'General, ^c, ^c. 



In accepting the office of your President, in now assuming the 

 task of, for the first time, addressing your Association when 

 launched on its course, I have been, not regardless of the 

 responsibility I have taken upon myself, nor have I forgotten 

 the absence of so many of those essential qualifications which 

 would have rendered your selection less embarassing to myself, 

 or my address to you more worthy of the Society we seek to 

 establish. 



Not alone in the ofishoots of the older world, but in the 

 more ancient seats of learning, positions of this nature have 

 customarily been occupied by men distinguished for theii* rank 



