Presidential Address, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, July 23rd, 1884

1884 ◽  
Vol 30 (131) ◽  
pp. 337-353
Author(s):  
H. Rayner
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Presidential Address

Gentlemen,—I cannot commence my address without reminding the Association of the regrettable circumstance which has resulted in my having had conferred upon me the honour of occupying this position to-day.

Presidential Address, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin, June 12th, 1894

1894 ◽  
Vol 40 (171) ◽  
pp. 487-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conolly Norman
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Forward Path ◽  
Good Material ◽  
General Secretary ◽  
Present Meeting

Gentlemen,—My first and most pleasing duty in taking this chair is to thank you very warmly for the honour you have done me in placing me here. Recalling the names of those who have occupied this position before me, I am abashed by my sense of my own unworthiness to fill it. When the question of my nomination as President of this Association was mooted, I would fain have stood aside, but the kindly representations of those members who said that it was Ireland's turn for an Annual Meeting made me feel that I could not evade the honourable task which was put upon me, even though I feel that I am very far from being the fittest of my contemporaries to undertake it. I have also been moved to accept your kindness and the distinguished honour you have conferred upon me in the hope that a meeting might be arranged in Dublin in such a way as to further the objects of the Association and to be of advantage to the members, particularly to those who live in Ireland. How far this hope may be fulfilled remains to be seen. I trust, in any case, that our present meeting may be so far successful that all our future Annual Meetings may be working meetings, and that under successors, I hope more competent than myself, the Association may be thereby materially aided in its forward path. For this meeting we have, I am happy to say, a very large and comprehensive programme, the members having heartily seconded the efforts of the General Secretary and myself to bring in good material. I desire no credit for this. I may say, with Montaigne, “I have brought you here a nosegay of sweet flowers; nothing is mine but the string that ties them together.” It is, perhaps, the function of the Chairman of such a meeting as this rather to aid and to suggest discussion than himself to take a very prominent part therein; rather to offer opportunities for others than to make them for himself; rather to be the whetstone than the chisel—

The Presidential Address delivered at the Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, Held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on the 21st July, 1898

1898 ◽  
Vol 44 (187) ◽  
pp. 673-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Urquhart
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Royal College ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Good Work

Before addressing you, I have formally, however imperfectly, to express my full appreciation of the high honour conferred upon me at your hands in thus placing me in the Presidential Chair of your beneficent Association. I say beneficent advisedly, for when men have banded themselves together for the cultivation of science and the improvement of the condition of the insane, they associate to fulfil these functions as practical philanthropists. These good intentions have been realised in fruitful performance in words and deeds, and we hold our Annual Meeting to-day with a desire, an ability for good work that cannot fail to mark the year as one of humane progress.

1973 Presidential Address Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Charles Issawi
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
Henry Ford ◽  
Middle East Studies

Anything coming after the floor show we have just seen can only be an anticlimax, and my impulse is to tear up my prepared text and just quote two great men: Thomas Carlyle, who described economics as “the dismal science” and Henry Ford, who said “history is bunk” — from which it presumably follows that economic history is dismal bunk. Instead, I should like to take advantage of this captive audience and speak to you in praise of economic history. This is an old Arabic genre : mahasin al-iqtisad. And of course economic history means giving as little history for as much money as possible, so you will not expect a long speech.

Atypical and Unusual Brain-Forms, especially in Relation to Mental Status: a Study on Brain-Surface Morphology

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (182) ◽  
pp. 462-483
Author(s):  
W. Julius Mickle
Keyword(s):  
Medical Journal ◽  
British Medical Journal ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
Surface Morphology ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Standard Group ◽  
Brain Surface ◽  
Usual Form

Chapter IX.A Standard of Aberrant Conformations of Gyres and Furrows framed as a Test, and constituting a stigma, of Hereditary Mental Degeneracy. A Standard of Deviation and Defect.And, in Chapter XI.,The results of the Application of the Standard of Deviation and Defect in Comparisons between the Gyres and Furrows in several forms of Mental Disease, and those in the Standard Group of Cases.Introductory Remarks.∗In the deviations from usual form or type already described—both the new and those adopted from other observers—the material is provided for tests or criteria of various forms of defective or aberrant brain development; and the standard about to be described has its material derived from those sources, and is directly drawn from certain brains.∗ With little change, these preliminary remarks are taken from part of my Presidential Address, in July, 1895, in the Section of Psychology at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in London. (British Medical Journal, Sept. 28, 1895.)

Presidential Address, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at Queen's College, Cork, August 4, 1885

1885 ◽  
Vol 31 (135) ◽  
pp. 315-327
Author(s):  
J. A. Eames
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The South ◽  
High Position

Gentlemen,—Allow me in the first place, on my own part and that of my confrères, to thank you for the very great compliment you have paid the members of the Medico-Psychological Association who are in the Irish asylum service, through me, by doing me the honour to select me as your President for the ensuing year. For myself personally, I regret your choice has not fallen on one better able to fill such a high position; and I feel I have no claim whatever beyond your kindness in wishing to extend your friendship to your fellow-workers in this country. In their name, therefore, I bid you a hearty welcome to the fair city of the South, and trust that your visit may not only be attended with present pleasure, but that you may carry with you pleasing reminiscences of your stay amongst us.

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