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responding to the wish of the Council of the College of Organists, that I should deliver a lecture before its body, I have chosen for my subject "The Early English Organ Builders and their Works, from the Fifteenth Century to the Period of the Great Rebellion." This offers a new field of inquiry, and one of great interest to the English organist. I have not adopted it, however, without some little hesitation, fearing that it might be considered of too archæological a character to come within the legitimate objects of this institution. But, after giving the matter due consideration in all its 2