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appreciation. The presentation, which was made by Professor 
Allen in graceful terms, consisted of an illuminated testimonial, 
placing on record Mr. Hughes’s services, and embellished with a 
portrait of “ The Master,” vignettes emblematic of the Synthetic 
Philosophy, and a massive gold ring, with a beautiful cameo 
portrait of Mr. Spencer. Mr. Browett, one of the oldest members 
of the Section, Mr. Cullis, Professor Hillhouse, and Dr. Sliowell 
Rogers paid high tribute to Mr. Hughes, and expressed warm 
gratitude for the active part he had taken in cultivating the study 
of Sociology. 
The following is a copy of the address :— 
TO WILLIAM RICHARD HUGHES, Esq., F.L.S. 
We, Members of the Sociological Section of the Birmingham Natural 
History and Microscopical Society, and a few personal friends, are desirous, 
now that for the time being you are retiring from the Presidency of the 
Section—a post which you have held since its foundation in the year 1883 
—of taking this means of assuring you of our high appreciation of the 
services you have rendered to the study of Sociology by the active part 
you have taken in forming and developing this department of Science and 
Philosophy in our midst. 
You have appropriately devoted no small portion of your scanty leisure 
to creating in this city of social and political activities, with which you are 
officially and honourably connected, an intelligent interest in the writings 
of one who has spent his life in formulating a Science of Society, which is the 
noblest application of the principles of Evolution. He it is whom it is ever 
your delight to honour by the name of “ The Master,” and who has 
honoured you with his personal friendship—Herbert Spencer. 
Whilst thus recognising the value of your scientific work, we would not 
forget the geniality, graceful courtesy, and hospitality which you have at all 
times shown to those who have had the privilege of being associated with you, 
the recollections of which we shall ever retain amongst our most treasured 
memories. 
F. J. Allen, M.A. (President). 
Alfred Browett. 
Isabel Browett. 
Annie S. Byett. 
Harold W. Buncher. 
T. Y. Bridge, M.A. 
F. J. Cullis, F.G.S. 
Jane Kerr Davies. 
Lilie A. Goyne. 
W. B. Grove, M.A. 
Mary E. Grove. 
Julia Raymond Gingell. 
J. F. Goode. 
Bryan Hodgson. 
W. Hillhouse, M.A., F.L.S. 
Mr. Hughes, in accepting the gifts, referred in feeling terms 
to his long connection with the Section, and briefly traced its 
J. Alfred Hill, F.R.M.S. 
Alfred Hayes, M.A. 
Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S. 
Amelia Moseley. 
T. S. Mullard. 
Showell Rogers, M.A., LL.D. 
W. H. Sanders. 
Herbert Stone, F.L.S. 
H. H. Spears. 
Mary Dalton-Taylor. 
J. Udall, F.G.S. 
J. Cuming Walters. 
COLBRAN J. WAINWRIGHT. 
Phin. H. Levi (Hon. Sec.). 
August, 1893. 
