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INTRODUCTION.
n an address to the Sette of Odd Volumes, March 31, 1882, his Ex-Oddship, Bernard Quaritch, our “Librarian,” in allusion to myself as “Auditor” for that year, remarked that my duties would be light; but that he hoped I should, on that account, from time to time favour the Sette with my researches with the crucible (in my capacity as Alchymist to the Sette). “In time,” he remarked, “Bro. Brown will no doubt discover the Philosopher’s Stone, and issue it as an Odd Volume.” Bro. C. W. H. Wyman on another occasion announced that I intended to write and in due time present to you “a History of Finger Rings.”
