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I think we all feel stimulated by such encouraging words from a 

 man like Lord Burnham, who, while not a scientist or technician, 

 sees the great importance of this movement. 



It is also a great satisfaction to find so many well-known repre- 

 sentatives of science and technology taking part in our Symposium 

 to-day. America has contributed several valuable communications, 

 including those of Prof. Sauveur, who has done so much for the 

 microscope and metallography, Dr. Zay Jeffries, who has made the 

 subject of grain size peculiarly his own, and others. 



We have imjDortant communications from France and Italy in 

 the papers of Monsieur Eugene Schneider, Prof. H. le Chatelier, 

 Signor Giolitti, and others. 



As regards our own country, I venture to say that the host of 

 Addresses and Papers, some forty in all, are unique, and of a 

 most valuable nature. The Addresses include those to be presented by 

 Sir Herbert Jackson, Mr. Barnard, Prof. Cheshire, and Prof. Con- 

 rady, each of them meriting commendation of the highest kind. As 

 regards the authors of the large number of papers presented, it is 

 not possible to mention here the names, for they are so numerous, 

 but it can be added that the general standard of the papers is ex- 

 ceedingly high, and we thank those many confributors most heartily 

 for the trouble and pains they have taken in preparing their com- 

 munications. 



May I say, too, on your behalf, how extremely grateful we are 

 to the authors of the Addresses and Papers, also to the Exhibitors 

 and the many others who have worked with such energy to make 

 the Symposium not merely, I trust, a succiess, but one from which 

 will spring benefits, both scientific and practical, of the highest order. 



I wish to add one word with regard to the most valuable his- 

 torical collection submitted by the Education Department. I refer 

 to that from the Science Museum, South Kensington. I also take 

 this opportunity of offering our heartiest congratulations to Sir 

 Erancis Ogilvie, the Director of that Museum, ujDon his recent well- 

 deserved Knighthood. 



We have, too, with us this evening many important Members 

 and visitors who have done much for the microscope. Amongst them 

 is my friend Dr. J. E. Stead, w^ho has greatly helped metallography. 

 I am sure you will all be glad to learn that he is in May next to 

 "become President of that important body, the Iron and Steel Insti- 

 Utte. We wish him health and strength and a most successful term 

 of office. 



I am sure I shall be excused for referring to family matters. Of 

 course, as family matters are, it is strictly private, but as we are 

 one big family to-night we should like you all to share in our joys. 

 It is not often that after quite a considerable interval of time it 

 is possible to bring together the Founders of a Society. The 

 changes and chanoes of this mortal life step in and sadly break con- 

 tinuity, but in this special case I am glad to tell you we have present 

 with us this evening, with one unavoidable exception — and, happily, 

 this is not owing to the member in question not being in the land of 

 the living — all the Founders of the Faraday Society. I refer to 

 Mr. Sherard Cowper-Coles, Mr. W. R. Cooper, Prof. F. G. Donnan, 

 Dr. F. M. Perkin, Mr. Alexander Siemens, Mr. James Swinburne 



