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our campaign is not concluded. We are only retiring into summer quarters 
for a time, and we must come out again next session with increased strength, 
and endeavour to extend, if possible, the field of our labours. The Council 
have very much at heart the transferring of our local habitation to a more 
suitable place. We have the opportunity, if funds be forthcoming, of 
engaging rooms which will serve as a library and reading-room for our 
members — a place in which we may deposit those books, some of them 
of considerable value, of which we are now possessed, and those books 
which we expect will come to us when we have a place to put them in, and 
where members coming from the country may go and sit, and, if necessary, 
where they may make appointments for meeting together. In point of 
fact, we wish that our Institute should confer on our members the advantages 
of a club. We are convinced that if we can manage that, it will extend the 
influence of our Society, also advance its work very much indeed, and 
increase the number of our members, and the interest which they and their 
friends take in the work of the Institute. It is therefore very desirable that 
funds should be forthcoming to carry out that object, for, unfortunately, 
however good the object, nothing can be done without “ the sinews of war.” 
We therefore put it most earnestly to all our members to endeavour by 
contributions and otherwise to contribute to the carrying out of this very 
desirable object. 
Mr. Keddie. — Sir, before you adjourn this meeting, I am sure it will be 
gratifying to every one present, if I make some allusion to a gentleman 
generally present at all our meetings, but who is not with us to-night — 
I mean our senior Vice-President, Mr. Mitchell. (Hear, hear.) It is 
unnecessary to say what his labours have been for the Institute. He is now 
non-resident, and I stand up now not merely to invite you to record your 
thanks to him for his most valuable and assiduous labours on our behalf 
heretofore — and no one has the interests of this Institute more at heart than 
Mr. Mitchell — but to state, that although he has been presented with a living 
in the country, and I may say that he has obtained that living from Lord 
Shaftesbury on account of his connection with this Institute (hear, hear), for 
it was at this Institute that Lord Shaftesbury made his acquaintance, and 
became cognizant of his great value as a man of science and a sound theolo- 
gian — that although Mr. Mitchell will be some ninety miles away in the 
country, he has given us the expectation — almost I may say the assurance — of 
being present at many of our meetings. We could not expect him to be pre- 
sent at all ; but he has promised to be with us frequently, and I am sure that 
will be a great satisfaction to all of us. In his absence, then, I think we 
ought to make a special exception in his case, and record a vote of thanks 
most cordially to Mr. Mitchell for his past services, and also express our 
gratification that although he is separated from us locally, he will still be 
frequently with us at our meetings. (Hear, hear.) 
Mr. Ince. — I second the motion most cordially. 
The motion was carried by acclamation. 
Mr. West. — There is one more name which we ought not to separate with- 
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