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JUBILEE MEETING, 
progress of geological science. Principal Bodington has been kind 
enough to say that I am not in the habit of shirking public duties. 
Public duties are not in the habit of shirking me — (laughter) — they 
pursue me very steadily, and I think it is unkind of Principal 
Bodington that he should give you a sort of impression that there is 
nothing like the delight of addressing public meetings and straining 
your voice to the utmost in addressing yourself " to the gentlemen 
at the end of the hall." (Laughter,) It is not at all an unpleasant 
change to be able to get away from the disputes and controversies of 
the day in order to carry your thoughts to the ichthyosaurus and the 
mammoth — (laughter) — which doubtless may have had their own 
notions about Home Rule— (laughter) — and at all events were 
attached to the principles of self-government. (Laughtsr.) In the 
presence of Prof. Judd I will not attempt to give any notion of local 
self-government, as it prevailed in the period of those interesting 
animals — (laughter) — and if I made any slip in describing the 
municipal institutions of the carboniferous era — (laughter) — I might be 
called to account by Prof. Green. (Renewed laughter.) Our meet- 
ing to-day has been very pleasant to me, and I hope you gentlemen have 
enjoyed it. (Hear, hear.) We in Ripon are always ready to welcome all 
who come, and we give our visitors all the accommodation we can, we 
have been delighted to see you here to-day ; and for myself I feel 
extremely grateful for the kindness of your reception. (Applause.) 
Mr. Carter (Harrogate) proposing the health of " The Secre- 
tary," said : It may be that I am the oldest member of the Yorkshire 
Geological Society in this company, and one of those who, if not in 
at the formation of the society, was certainly a member a few years 
after it was formed, (hear, hear) ; and it has been my great pleasure 
and advantage to have been a member from that time to the present. 
I have seen, therefore, a number of presidents and secretaries before 
those whose services we have the pleasure of enjoying now. It has 
been, I am sure, a great happiness to all of us to unite in the testi- 
monial we have been presenting to Mr. Davis to-day, humble though 
it may be as compared with his services to the society. (Hear, 
hear.) It is not in relation, therefore, to its value that I refer to it, 
but as expressing the loving attachment of a number of warm friends 
