Valedictory Presidential Address
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my shortcomings, in the kindness, courtesy, and help I have invariably received from the Council and from the Society at large?a support without which it would have been impossible for me to have attempted to maintain the dignity of the Chair which I am about to demit. This kindness on your part, moreover, has made my term of office one of the pleasantest of my life, and one which has not been marred by one single note of dis2ord?an experience which I venture to think is not always vouchsafed to chairmen,?and I am correspondingly grateful to you for having made this possible in my case. No President could have had a more loyal or enthusiastic Council than I have had, and though it is invidious to single out names, yet I cannot but specially mention our indefatigable Secretaries, who have worked so zealously, and to whom the
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