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The President's Address. 
societies like ours to encourage the extension of scientific 
education_, to enlist the neophyte in onr ranks^ and thus to 
secure accomplished observers and discoverers^ and a public 
capable of comprehending and applying their discoveries. 
I have thus endeavoured to glance at the work of the year, 
and embody the thoughts it suggests ; but before I close^ I 
would remind you of the obligation we are under to the 
Council of the noble Institution within whose walls we have 
permission to meet. When obliged to leave our apartments 
in Regent Street, at the latter end of our last session, we 
obtained the consent of the Council of the Royal Society, 
and the Senate of the University of London, to meet in the 
large room which they now jointly occupy. We had hoped 
that this permission would have been permanent, and I feel 
it due to the Senate of the London University to say that, 
as far as they were concerned, such permission was granted ; 
but the Council of the Royal Society could not see its way 
clear to give up its rooms for our use once a month ; and thus 
we were compelled to look for a meeting-room in some other 
direction. It was then suggested by Dr. Lionel Beale that 
application should be made to the Council for permission 
to meet in the rooms of King's College ; and I can bear testi- 
mony to the promptitude with which this request was 
responded to, and you yourselves are the witnesses of the 
readiness with which all the accommodation we require has 
been accorded to us. 1 am also able to state that the Council 
of this College has, with the same generosity, placed the 
whole suite of rooms at the disposal of the Society for a soiree 
on the 11th of April next. 
It now remains for me to oflPer thanks for the courtesy that 
I have received on all hands, and for the kind manner in 
which I have been assisted by the Council, and supported by 
you, in performing the duties of your President. It gives me 
great pleasure to resign this chair to one who is so well 
entitled to fill it, and whose election is so honorable to the 
Society itself. Professor Quekett has worked with us from 
the beginning, and much of the success of the Society has 
depended upon his exertions. Many of the most valuable 
papers in our 'Transactions' are the result of his pains-taking 
and accurate habits of observation, and he has been our 
Secretary for nineteen years. These labours alone would 
have entitled him, at your hands, to the position in which you 
have this day placed him. But independent of what he has 
done for you, as Professor of Histology in the Royal College 
of Surgeons of England, as the author of the masterly lectures 
which he has delivered from the chair he holds, and as the 
