To one whose working life has been in large measure focused upon our Society, and whose thoughts have been often enough drawn to it from remote parts of the world and sometimes in strange circumstance, the presentation of his first Anniversary Address is an emotional moment. I say that in all deliberation. For the most part I do not much believe in emotion; I prefer hard outlines to my thinking and regard sentiment as a rare and perilous indulgence. If I indulge now for an instant, you will I hope infer a gratitude, deeper than I care to say, to you who have entrusted me with your presidency and have so crowned a career of long and (I trust) reasonably faithful service to the discipline for which we stand.