102 ANNUAL MEETING. 



could not help our attention being concentrated. As you go from 

 this meeting back to your cabs, and to your carriages, you may 

 look up to the heavens, and gaze at those fixed stars and wonder 

 in your minds what there is between you and them, and when you 

 have come to any conclusions, you will come at least to this, that 

 the whole is the handiwork of Him who has given us these wonder- 

 ful powers of mind whereby we can conceive of the Creator 

 through the creation. 



Admiral H. D. Grant, C.B., R.'N. — I esteem it a great privilege 

 to support this vote of thanks to our President. I cannot say that 

 my studies have led me to consider the subject which has been 

 dealt with, but I am perfectly certain that it has been put so 

 simply and so intelligibly before us, that everyone must thoroughly 

 appreciate the admirable Address to which we have listened. I also 

 esteem it a privilege to speak, because, it is almost the first time 

 since the Institute was founded — and I had the honour of being 

 one of the very first founders — that I have had the pleasure of 

 being present at an Annual Meeting with my friend Mr. McArthur. 

 I remember Mr. Reddie, who has since passed away, saying to me 

 once " when we get 200 members, what shall we think of ourselves?" 

 and now we number nearly 1,500 ! If he had lived it would have 

 been a great pleasure to him to think of the Fi'esident of tbe Royal 

 Society, being the President also of this Institute. I trust we 

 have really followed out our motto in doing everything " To the 

 greater glory of God." I am sure I am the mouthpiece of 

 evei'yone here in giving a cordial vote of thanks to the President 

 for presiding over us to-night. 



The resolution was passed unanimously. 



The President. — Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grateful to you 

 for the vote which you have so kindly passed. At the same time, 

 I am very sensible of my position of late years with the Society. 

 I have not been in the Chair so frequently as I was before, or so 

 frequently as I could wish ; but I now trust that in the future, 

 I may be with you more often. Of late, I have had one very 

 difficult matter on hand, besides my own University work, and 

 this has prevented me from being with you as often as I could 

 have wished. 



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