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THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.
boundary lines of the County. This resolution was sent to the County Council
and the members of Parliament, etc. The Council is happy to say that the
almost universal protestations which the project called forth led to its abandon-
ment, and the county was saved from a most unnecessary and unpatriotic curtail-
ment.
Mr. Chancellor, being of opinion that the President should not retain office,
unless under very special circumstances, for more than two years in succession,
has placed his resignation in the hands of the Council. The Council has nominated
Mr. David Howard, J.P., F.C.S., F.I.C, an original member of the Club, and a
gentleman well known in scientific circles, as well as a resident in the county, and
one taking a great interest in its welfare and progress, to the office.
It is only due to Mr. Chancellor that the Council should express the high
sense of the value of his services as Chairman of our meetings, entertained by
the members. Mr. Chancellor's services, as one of the Club's nominees upon
the Technical Instruction Committee, have also greatly advanced the cause of
scientific instruction in our county. Under the rules, Mr. Chancellor, on retiring
from the presidency, becomes one of the permanent Vice-Presidents of the Club,
and the Council is glad to thus retain the benefit of his advice and assistance.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS.
Delivered at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting, on
March 30TH, 1895.
By FREDERIC CHANCELLOR, J.P., F.R.I.B.A., President.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—I have been somewhat exer-
cised in my own mind whether or not I should give another
address at the termination of my second year of office, but as it
seems desirable to preserve the continuity of these annual addresses,
I have elected to do so. What the subject should be, I found to be
a far more difficult point to be determined.
In my 1894 address I gave you a history of the development of
Architecture in Essex, but I feel it would be a refinement of cruelty
to repeat the subject this year; toujours perdrix, however well
served up, is apt to pall upon the palate. Now, I find there was a
custom started by our first President, and followed several times
since, of reviewing the work done by the Club during the previous
year or years, and I do not think I can improve upon that custom.
I therefore propose to give you a resume of the proceedings of the
Club, and the various works they have been connected with during
the past two or three years.