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from tutelage ; they have also included papers from members 

 of the University who are now working elsewhere. 



On an occasion like the present even the strict and logical 

 realm of Science cannot but be enveloped by the glamour 

 inseparable from the circumstances which have called forth 

 this book, and influenced by the thoughts that arise naturally 

 from the consideration of the great space in time that lies 

 between the rude beginnings of the University and the 

 elaborate development of these later years. 



Amidst the reflections evoked none is stronger, and none 

 should be more reverently valued by the disciple of Science, 

 than that which reminds us of the debt which we owe to those 

 who have gone before us. To the deep and difficult founda- 

 tions that they laid, to their patient and sometimes thankless 

 and unrewarded labour, labour too often performed with 

 scanty or ill-adapted tools, we owe our present points of 

 vantage, our present ambitious intellectual structures. They 

 have laboured, and we have indeed entered into their labours. 



To their memory we dedicate this book, in the humble 

 hope that in the future history of our dear University some 

 memory may also remain of our familiar friends as helpers in 

 carrying the torch of learning into still unillumined recesses ; 

 in extending the empire of the human intellect ; and in giving 

 to their fellowmen a nearer vision of the absolute yet ever 

 unattainable truth. 



J. E. A. STEGGALL 



Chairman of the Editorial Committee 



