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Vol. III.

ENTLEMEN: Again I have to thank yon for conferring upon me the honorable office of President. In the brief review of the progress of the Society which, as the outgoing President, it was my duty to make, I have touched upon those points in our affairs which appeared specially worthy of attention, and it now only remains to me to deliver the inaugural address on assuming for the second time the office to which, by your partiality, I have been elected.

In choosing the subject, "The Brain not the Sole Organ of the Mind," it appears to be necessary that I should in the first place, as clearly as possible, express my ideas relative to the connection between the mind and the nervous system, and of the nature of that power which in its full development places man at the head of all other animals.