654 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
Sir, it has sometimes, by wise men, been accounted the part of wis- 
dom to set themselves against the current of their days’ thinking 
Who, rowing hard against the stream, 
Saw distant gates of Eden gleam, 
And did not dream it is a dream. 
But it has been the wisdom of other wise men, not less numerous or 
less wise, to throw themselves into the enthusiasm of their age, whatever 
be its objects, nay, its idols; to echo and encourage in all ways, all faith 
and all hope as making all for good. 
This, Sir, the Canadian Institute has done in its devotion to Science ; 
and it is not for me to-night, on such an occasion and before such an 
audience, to question whether you have chosen the better part. 
Hon. G. W. Allan, D.C.L., Chancellor of Trinity University, spoke of 
the debt of gratitude which the country owed to the Canadian Institute. 
He said that the most optimistic of the members could not have hoped 
to see such a glorious celebration of the fiftieth anniversary, and he 
wished that it would be only an augury of better things to come. 
Mr. Kivas Tulley, C.E., said : 
May it please Your Excellency, the President, Officers and Members of the 
Canadian Institute, Ladies and Gentlemen :— 
As one of the three surviving original members, I thank God I 
have been spared to participate in the celebration of the semi-centenary 
of the Institute, and to tender my hearty congratulations on the unin- 
terrupted success and progress attained by the Institute to the present 
time. 
When the Architects, Engineers and Surveyors, practising in To- 
ronto, met at my office on the 2oth of June, 1849, for the purpose of 
forming themselves into a society for mutual improvement and advance- 
ment, they could not have imagined or foretold that after fifty years a 
meeting of the Institute should have been held in this city, honoured by 
the presence of His Excellency, the Governor-General, and the Major- 
General commanding the Militia of the Dominion. 
When the Institute was incorporated by Royal letters patent in 
1851, it apparently lost its professional character, and the Architects, 
Engineers and Surveyors became separately incorporated, and partially 
ceased to attend the meetings of the Institute. 
During the last year an Engineers’ Club was formed, professing 
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