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out mentioning, and I am sure it will be agreeable to every member of the 
Institute. I beg very cordially to move that the best thanks of this meeting 
be presented to our worthy Chairman and Yice-President, the Kev. Dr. 
Thornton, who, from the very first, has been one of our most efficient and 
active members. I am sure I need say nothing more on that subject. 
The motion was then seconded and put to the meeting by Mr. Beddie, 
and carried unanimously. 
Dr. Thornton. — A man feels a considerable difficulty when he is thanked 
for doing that which he likes to do very much indeed. To me anything 
that I can do here is a labour of love, if indeed I can call it a labour at all. 
My profession and place of residence prevent me from being quite regular in 
my attendance here, but I come whenever I possibly can, and I do as much 
work for the Society as the immense amount of work in my own profes- 
sion enables me to do. What I have done has been a labour of love, and it 
has only been too well appreciated by the kindness of the members of this 
Institute. I sincerely hope that they may not hereafter feel any reason to 
regret the compliment they have paid me in elevating me to the position of 
Yice-President. I now declare this meeting and present session at an end. 
