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contained illustrations of the most important and 

 interesting productions of the human intellect and 

 human ingenuity, and the contemplation of these 

 achievements could not fail to impress our people with 

 the results of our industrial enterprise, and to encour- 

 age them to renewed effort. 



At a banquet given to the Association by the 

 Corporation of Manchester on the 7th of September I 

 had to respond, as President, to the toast of the 

 British Association proposed by the Mayor. 



The meeting was certainly a great success. To a 

 certain extent this was due to the untiring personal 

 exertions of my late distinguished colleague and 

 friend Professor Milnes Marshall, F.R.S., whose un- 

 timely death by an accident on Scawfell Pike science 

 and his friends have had to deplore. 



On the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee in 1887, 

 together with the other members of the House of 

 Commons and their ladies, my wife and I had places 

 assigned to us in the Abbey. The magnificent 

 ceremonial has been fully described by other pens. 

 No ceremony of the kind was ever so rich in asso- 

 ciations or so beautiful in its effect. In the first 

 place, no monarch ever reigned for so long a time in 

 any part of the world with the trust and love of so 

 many millions of human beings. In the second place, 

 our Sovereign was a woman, with all the noblest 

 attributes of her sex, In the third place, it was 

 not a mere martial show, but the expression of the 

 feeling of a nation devoted to its Sovereign as the 

 upholder of peaceful progress. In the magnificent 

 procession of princes and foreign potentates who came 

 to honour our Gracious Queen stood pre-eminent 

 the splendid form of her son-in-law, Prince Frederick 

 of Prussia, afterwards, alas! for so short a time, the 



