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ticate (and our prognostication is true) that in the annals of agriculture tlie names of such men 
as these will be immortal. 
I present to you a Fellow of the Royal Society, who has twice already received an honorary 
degree elsewhere, the distinguished Baronet, Sir John Bennet Lawes. 
Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, F.It.S. 
Quos tot annoruni labores una coniunxerunt, eos in laudibus nostris 
liodie divellere vix possumus. Constat tamen labores illos viri huiusce 
scientiae admirabili et industriae indefessae plurimum debere. Constat 
eosdem eiusdem scriptis, eiusdem orationibus, non modo in patria nostra sed 
etiam peregre maximo cum fructu esse patefactos. Cum collega suo summa 
concordia coniunctus, Plinii verba iure optimo posset usurpare : “ nobis erat 
nullum certamen, nulla contentio, cum uterque pari iugo non pro se, sed pro 
causa niteretur.” 
“Felices ter et amplius 
quos irrupta tenet copula.” 
Duco ad vos Regiae societatis socium, virum ab ipsa Regina equitem 
propter merita nominatum, Iosephuh Henricum Gilbert. 
Those who have been joined together in the labours of so many years can hardly be set asunder 
or in any way separated by ourselves in the award of our meed of praise. It is agreed, however, 
that those long-continued labours owe a large debt to the scientific skill and the unremitting 
industry of him whom you now see before you. It is also agreed that by his writings and his lec- 
tures the results of those labours have been most fruitfully expounded in this and other countries. 
United with his fellow-worker by bonds of closest concord, he might justly apply to himself and 
his colleague the words of the younger Pliny : “ There has been no conflict, no contest between us, 
while each of us like a true yoke-fellow, has been ever striving, not for himself, but for the common 
cause.” 1 
“ Thrice blest, and more than thrice, are they 
Whom one strong bond unites for aye.” 2 
I present to you a Fellow of the Royal Society, one whose merits have been recognised by his 
receiving the honour of knighthood from the Queen, Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert. 
1 Pliny, Ep. iii 9. 2 Horace, Odes, i 13, 17. 
Masters of Arts. 
Mr. Ernest Clarke. 
V obis omnibus noturn esse arbitramur concilii vestri per annos septem 
adiutorem strenuumet indefessum. virum in Britannia quidem societati anti- 
quitatis studiosorum, inter exteros autem societatibus plurimis honoris causa 
adscriptum. In agro Suffolciensi natum fuisse constat virum insignem, qui 
scriptis suis fere centum abhinc annos in lucem missis agri culturam (velut 
alter Tremellius) “ eloquentem reddidit.” Yiri tanti popularem, quern liodie 
laudamus, e loco suo natali spiritum eiusdem hausisse crediderim. 
Duco ad vos Ernestum Clarke. 
We presume that you are all familiar with one who, for the last seven years, has been theever- 
aetive and never-weary coadjutor of your Council, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and an 
honorary member of many Societies abroad. It is the county of Suffolk that claims the birthplace 
of that distinguished agriculturist (Arthur Young) who in his writings, which saw the light 
about a century ago, succeeded (like the Roman Tremellius) in “making agriculture eloquent." 1 
We may well' believe that that eminent man’s fellow-countryman, whom we eulogise to-day, 
caught something of that spirit from the place of his birth. 
I present to you Hr. Ernest Clarke. 
' Columella, i 1, 12. 
Hr. John Augustus Voelcker. 
Claudit seriem patris in scientia cliemica illustris filius in eadem scientia 
insignia, qui inter Germanos Philosophiae Doctor multa cum laude nomina- 
tvis, etiam de agri cultura inter Indos publice rettulit. Idem, per annos 
novum societati vestrae in re cbemica consilio dando, patris successorem sese 
