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CONSTANCE C. W. NADEN. 
May, 1890 . 
of tlie Sociological Section, in which she took such deep 
interest. With her usual generously-altruistic nature, she 
had some weeks before promptly complied with the request of 
the President that she would deliver an address as a 
preliminary to the subsequent exposition by her fellow- 
members of the first volume of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s 
“ Principles of Sociology.” The meeting was held in the 
large Examination Hall of the college, and the attendance, 
which included many ladies, was numerically and intel¬ 
lectually strong, numbering about a hundred. Among the 
audience were all the members of the Section, and some of 
the members of the other sections of the parent Society, a 
few of her old companions of College days, several of her 
near relatives and intimate friends, and three or four of the 
learned professors, her former teachers in the college. Her 
address was read in a remarkably clear and impressive voice— 
the intonation being so perfect that it penetrated into every 
corner of the hall—and was listened to with rapt attention 
during the period of upwards of an hour which it occupied in 
delivery. During the pauses, which naturally fell here and 
there, hearty and sympathetic applause was accorded. Her 
finely-cut and highly intellectual face never seemed so bright 
and earnest, Many friends remarked on her apparent good 
health and spirits, and that all traces of her Indian illness 
had disappeared. At the conclusion, a cordial vote of thanks 
to the able Sociologist for her valuable address, accompanied 
by a request that she would allow it to be printed, 
was moved by Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A., President of the 
Society, and seconded by Professor Tilden, D.Sc., F.R.S. In 
his subsequent remarks, the learned professor paid her the 
high compliment of saying that she had acted wisely in 
undertaking original work rather than striving for a degree— 
a compliment, we believe, that has rarely been paid before, 
except by Professor Michael Foster in the case of the 
late F. M. Balfour. Her staunch friend and former teacher, 
Professor Lapworth, LL.D., F.R.S., J. A. Langford, LL.D. 
(whose “ Century of Birmingham Life” she had referred to 
in her address), and her old fellow-student, Mr. F. J. Cullis, 
F.G.S., the first president of the Union Debating Society, 
also spoke in the warmest terms, and the motion was carried 
with acclamation. 
The address commenced with a plea in favour of 
the new science of Sociology and a subsequent definition of 
the nature and scope of its aims and objects, with some 
account of the various complicated factors which regulate its 
inter-dependence and progress, together with comparative 
illustrations from primitive and other races, and, after a 
