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without scruple and without reserve. Sir, the University and the Institute 
have ever been intimately linked as I have said: they have been—I hope 
it may be said—lovely and pleasant in their lives. Certainly in their birth 
they were not divided but were twins. In the early days of the Insti- 
tute its history is largely a history also of the University Professoriate ; 
the names that occur, the genii locorum, were the same; they are such 
names as McCaul, Cherriman, Hincks, Chapman, Croft, and last, but by 
no means least, the venerated name of Sir Daniel Wilson: or if not the 
names of University Professors, they are the names of University 
Officers; John Langton, Vice-Chancellor of Toronto University; the 
Hon. George Allan, Chancellor of Trinity College; Chief Justice 
Hagarty of the same College; or the names of Professors of Trinity 
College, Parry, Irving, Harris. Why, Sir, I think only one perhaps of 
those early Presidents was not himself a member of the staff of either - 
of our Universities, though his son isa member of our Toronto staff 
to-day, Sir Henry Lefroy. 
And so again in more recent times among the Presidents of the In- 
stitute have been the names of Loudon, Wright, Ellis; of van der 
Smissen and Macallum, and it is still true I suppose, that half of the 
Proceedings of your Institute are contributed by the University staff. 
I do not know, Sir, whether I am to account it a happy accident or a 
sign of the times that you who grace the Presidential chair to-day are 
not also a member of the University staff. 
It is at any rate a happy accident since it makes our University con- 
gratulations to you more easy and more natural; it is not so like the 
right hand congratulating the left. 
But it may well be also a sign of the times, Sir; with the growth of 
this great city, and the growth therein of the number of University 
graduates, it ought to be less and less necessary for a learned Society 
such as yours to depend upon Universities: you, Sir, must increase: and 
we—the academic element in the Institute—must decrease ; relatively at 
least to the fraction we constitute of your numbers. 
The Canadian Institute, I understand, Sir, is not specifically devoted 
by its charter to any special form of learning; to science more than to lit- 
erature ; and among its early contributors and early contributions were 
literary men and literary papers; but naturally, Sir, the Institute has 
taken the colour of its age, has caught the spirit of its times, and has 
devoted itself mainly to that Science, Physical, Mathematical or Me- 
chanical, which is the living passion of this day ; nay, which inspires, as 
