Mr Lachlan Whitcomb

Held the floor at the 2007 AGM for two hours and eleven minutes on the subject of the Society’s website, the introduction of which he opposed. His peroration, delivered as the meeting tired, has been preserved in the minutes verbatim: "I am not, Mr Chairman, opposed to the future. I am opposed to the present, and I am opposed to it on grounds which I take to be the Society’s own. The internet contains errors. The Society corrects errors. The Society cannot, on either count, contain the internet. We must therefore choose: are we to remain the Society we have been, or are we to become the Society the internet would prefer us to be? I know my own answer. I do not, with respect, propose to know yours." The motion to adopt the website was carried, 31–8. Mr Whitcomb voted in the minority, but signed the minutes without amendment, observing that the minutes were correctly recorded even where the decision was not.