Before the paper the President (Professor Henry Balfour) said: Every
other year a special lecture is given to the Society under the Dickson Trust?
the "Asia Lecture," which describes its own objective sufficiently well. This
year we have been fortunate enough to secure Mr. Philby to give it, and that,
I am sure, will give you all great pleasure, because nobody has done more to
throw light on the Near East than he has.
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