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Yorkshireman." (Hear hear). 1 confess I have not been very success- 
ful in finding the ground for the proud boast. I have a great 
sympathy with Yorkshire, and recollect that some of my earliest 
work with the hammer was along the shores of this beautiful county. 
But this is my first visit to this charming city of Ripon, and never 
before have I bsen able to partake of the beauty of Fountains. 
Well, I am very glad indeed to be here to-day, and especially to be 
the bearer of greetings to you — for I am speaking to you now in 
the name of all the Fellows and Officers of the Geological Society in 
London (Hear hear). I hope societies of this kind will abound and 
prosper all over the land ; and trust that this society will do even 
more in the future than it has done in the past for the advancement 
of tlie science in which the Geological Society of London is par- 
ticularly concerned. (Applause.) 
Principal Bodington : I have the honour to propose the health 
of " The President," who has presided over us to-day with so much 
geniality. There are those who know how great Lord Ripon' s 
interest has been in this society for a great number of years I am 
sure those who heard his address and perceived in that address how 
warm his interest was in science and in the application of science, 
will give a cordial assent to the toast which I have the honour to 
propose. Our President is one who never shirks his duty. But 
there is something in enjoying your duty and he makes us feel that 
he enjoys his public duties. Lord Ripon's services to science are not 
confined to this society ; he does a large amount of work for the 
Yorkshire College, and engages in the exhilarating business of attend- 
ing councils and committees, which work Professor Judd appears to 
think is confined to London. (Laughter and applause.) 
The President, in acknowledging the toast, said : I know very 
well you have not chosen me for this post, because of any scientific 
knowledge I possess. I have been in a small way at various times 
a student of science — geology among others. But other vocations 
have prevented me from studying any science to any great extent. 
But I am still a student filled with the greatest admiration for science. 
(Hear, hear.) I think no Yorkshireman could fail to admire that 
sketch which Prof. Judd gave — the very interesting sketch — of the 
