I. THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF 

 SCIENCE TO THE INDUSTRIES OF 

 THE COUNTRY, WHICH CAN BE 

 SECURED ONLY THROUGH MAKING 

 SCIENCE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF 

 ALL EDUCATION. 



" Be famous then 



By wisdom ; as thy empire must extend, 

 So let extend thy mind o'er all the world 

 In knowledge," . . . 



MILTON (Paradise Regained). 



A 



From the Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting 

 on December i, 1902. 



S the liv- 

 ing re- 

 presen- 

 tatives of the 

 great men who 

 founded the 

 Royal Society, 

 or made it what 

 it is, it behoves 

 us to be very 

 eager as to what- 

 ever concerns 



not only the 

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