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JUBILEE MEETING 
. — PRESENTATION TO SECRETARY. 
medium of our worthy president our respect for him. (Hear, hear.) 
There is an address which it falls to my lot to read. It is as 
follows : — 
To James W. Davis, Esq., F.G.S., &c., of Chevinedge. 
Dear Sir, — "We, the undersigned members of the Yorkshire 
Geological and Polytechnic Society have much pleasure in presenting 
you with a first-class large compound binocular microscope, with all 
necessary accessories, as a mark of the esteem in which we hold you 
personally, and as some little acknowledgment of the great services 
which you have rendered to the society as the Honorary Secretary 
and Editor of the Annual Proceedings during a period of Twelve years. 
To the abiHty and zeal which you have shewn in this labour of 
love, as well as your personal efforts in generally promoting the 
welfare of the society, and your uniform courtesy to the members, 
much of its present prosperous condition must be attributed, and in 
the hope that you may long be spared to continue your labours, and 
enrich the proceedings by your own valuable researches 
We subscribe ourselves, 
(Signed) RIPON, President. 
October, 1887. 
The address contained 95 signatures. On a tablet on the mic- 
roscope was the following inscription : — 
Presented 
to 
Jas. Wm. Davis, Esqre., 
F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c., 
The Honorary Editor and Secretary 
of the 
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic 
Society, 
By 
The Most Hon. the Marquis of Ripon. 
K,G., G.C.S.I., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c, 
on behalf 
of the members. 
22nd October, 3 887. 
