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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
plaint, and the morbid lesions which are observed in the 
lungs of animals that have become diseased under the 
epizootic influences of pleuro-pneumonia. 
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
PRESENTATION OF PLATE TO MR. TUCKER, FOUNDER AND SECRETARY 
OF THE SOCIETY. 
On Thursday, the 14th of April, Dr. Babington gave a 
conversazione to the members of the Epidemiological Society 
and their friends. In the course of the evening, Dr. Babington 
presented to Mr. Tucker a silver plate, with an appropriate 
inscription, intended to be affixed to a secretaire , as a testi- 
monial of the sense entertained by the President and other 
members of the Society of the value of Mr. Tucker’s services 
as one of the honorary secretaries, and especially of the honor 
due to that gentleman as the founder of so important a 
society. In presenting this testimonial, Dr. Babington ex- 
pressed himself as follows : 
“A few friends, including myself, being deeply impressed 
with the zeal and ability which you evinced, first in origi- 
nating, and subsequently in establishing, the Epidemiological 
Society, and admiring the untiring energy which you have 
since exerted in endeavouring to promote its objects, — have 
felt anxious to manifest their sense of your merits and 
services by requesting your acceptance of some token of 
their regard. 
“ It is with much pleasure, therefore, that, in fulfilment of 
their wishes, and my own, I present you with this inscription, 
to be affixed to a secretaire , which, however small its intrinsic 
value, we have selected as an appropriate offering for one who 
has so efficiently fulfilled the very arduous duties as honorary 
secretary to our society.” 
To which Mr. Tucker replied : 
“ I accept with much pleasure the testimonial of appro- 
bation for the services it has been my pride to render to the 
cause in which you and others are so warmly interested. It is 
the cause of suffering humanity. I shall always look back 
with great satisfaction at having been the originator of a 
society which has displayed, even in its very infancy, its 
capability of doing great good. 
“ To those who have joined with you, Mr. President, in pre- 
senting me wfith this mark of their esteem, I hope you will con- 
vey my sincere and heartfelt thanks ; and I beg you to accept 
the same yourself, sir, for the very kind and flattering expres- 
sions which you have been pleased to use in presenting it.” 
