THE BANGOR LABORATORIES 



[Address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the 

 Physical and Chemical Laboratories i?i University 

 College, Bangor, North Wales, February 2nd, 1885.] 



I FEEL that the present occasion, upon which 

 you have done me the honour to ask me to 

 preside, is one of very great importance indeed, 

 and I wish some person more competent to 

 preside on such an occasion and give a suitable 

 inaugural address were in my place. I am afraid 

 I must confine myself to something not at all 

 worthy of the greatness of an occasion which is 

 almost the opening of a new university. Not 

 quite so, because the real opening of this college 

 took place several months ago ; but still it is an 

 occasion which I feel to be much more than 

 merely the opening of a department a working 

 department in the college ; an occasion of so 



