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Dr. J. Angus, D.D . — Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen : I would beg 
as an outsider to thank the Council for permission to submit to this meeting 
the expression of their cordial thanks for the paper we have just heard read, 
and for the other papers read from time to time at the meetings of this 
Institute. My own feeling is strong and clear that, if Dr. Boultbee’s paper 
were the only product of this Institute, the Society would not be working in 
vain. (Cheers.) I have only one practical suggestion to offer, and that is, that 
if the Council could favour us, not with volumes only, but with particular 
papers in a cheaper form, it would be a great advantage. (Cheers.) I ask 
the meeting with all their hearts to support this resolution. 
Mr. C. Brooke, F.R.S., Y.P. — I beg to second the resolution. 
The resolution was unanimously agreed to. 
Dr. Boultbee. — I beg to thank the meeting for the kind manner in which 
they have heard me. 
Mr. W. McArthur. — I have great pleasure in moving a resolution which I 
am sure will be cordially received by every one. We have had a very 
excellent meeting and have all thoroughly enjoyed it, and I quite concur 
in the remark made by Dr. Angus, that if this Institute had rendered no 
other service during the year than producing the very admirable Address 
we have listened to to-night, it would have conferred very great advantages, 
and I can only express a hope that the Address will be printed and circu- 
lated in some portable form, for I have not heard a lecture for many years that 
is better adapted to the present circumstances of the times. (Cheers.) I have 
now to move u that the thanks of the meeting be presented to the Chairman 
for his occupance of the chair this evening,’ 7 and for the efficient manner in 
which he has discharged his duties. We are under great obligations to him 
for the deep interest he has shown at all times in the Institute, and for the 
valuable services he has rendered to it. 
The Rev. Sir W. Tilson Marsh seconded the motion, which was unani- 
mously agreed to. 
The Chairman. — It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction again to have 
the opportunity of attending such a meeting as this, and of congratulating the 
Society on its great success. I have been absent from you for some time, and 
it has been a great satisfaction to me to see, by the attendance at this meeting, 
how the Society is growing in interest ; and it has been no small pleasure 
to listen to the admirable and eloquent Address which has just been given. 
It may well be said that we should have performed good work if we had 
done nothing else than been the means of giving such a paper to the world. 
(Cheers.) The only alloy I have in my pleasure is, that our noble Pre- 
sident, who does most thoroughly appreciate the awful fight in which we 
are all engaged, was not able to be present, and to have had the satisfaction 
which we have had, of such a clear exposition, that by the veriest common 
sense, as well as by the most lucid logic, we can all hold our own opinions 
against any form of infidelity. While listening to the Address I could 
not help thinking of the manner in which Professor Tyndall was pleased 
to deal with an eminent philosopher who did see design in water becoming 
