204 Centenary Commemoration, 1799-1899. [June 6, 



rational economy will become fashionable; industry and ingenuity 

 will be honoured and rewarded ; and the pursuits of all various classes 

 of society will then tend to promote the public prosperity." * 



Heureuses les nations qui savent comprendre ces genereuses 

 idees ! 



Heureuses les nations qui sont capables, comme la Grande 

 Bretagne, de fonder, de maintenir, et de faire prosperer des telles 

 institutions ! 



Je crois etre reinterprete de mes collegues du Continent en expri- 

 mant toute notre admiration pour I'oeuvre revee et accomplie par 

 Buniford et en buvant a la prosperity indefiniment seculaire de l'lnsti- 

 tution Boyale. qui depuis un siecle, a travers tant d'evenements inat- 

 tendus, a conserve, grace aux illustres savants quelle choisit, toujours 

 l'admirable esprit de son fondateur. 



Tuesday, June 6, 1899. 



H.E.H. The Prince op Wales, E.G., Vice-Patron, 

 in the Chair. 



COMMEMOEATION LECTUEE, 



By the Eight Hon. Lord Eayleioh, M.A. D.C.L. LL.D. F.E.S., 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy B.I. 



There were also present the Duke of Northumberland (President) 

 the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Lister (Pres. E.S.) Lord Kelvin, Lord 

 Amherst, Sir John Lubbock, Bart. M.P., Sir John Dorington, Bart. 

 M.P., Sir Frederick Abel, Bart., Sir Edward Frankland, Sir Andrew 

 Noble, Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., Sir William Crookes, Dr. J. H. 

 Gladstone, Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, Sir James Crichton- 

 Browne, Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., Dr. Ludvvig Mond, and 

 Professor Dewar. 



Lord Eayleigh said that though his was intended to be a com- 

 memorative lecture, the idea of commemorating all the work that had 

 been done at the Eoyal Institution was hopeless. To do so he would 

 require, not one lecture, but many courses of lectures, even though 

 much of it had been in chemistry, which did not fall within his 

 province. Eemembering that on other occasions he had spoken in 

 detail of the achievements of Faraday and Tyndall, he thought on 

 this occasion he would do well to go still further back in the century 



* The "Royal Institution : its Founder and its First Professors. By Dr. Bence 

 Jones (1871), page 147. 



