ANNUAL MEETING. 217 



like others, that you have heard the history of to-day, will cease to 

 exist. I have much pleasure in secondiug the vote of thanks. 



The resolution was then carried. 



Professor E. Hull, LL.D., F.R.S.— My lord, ladies and gentle- 

 men. There is one resolution in which I am sure we shall all concur 

 and which I have the honour and pleasure of moving viz. : that the 

 hearty thanks of the meeting be presented to our President, 

 Sir Geo. Gabriel Stokes (applause). It is a matter of great 

 imjDortance to an Institute such as this to have one at its head who 

 stands amongst the first of the philosophical investigators of our 

 time. No one is second to Sir Gr. Stokes in mathematical and 

 philosophical investigation, and it is matter for great congratula- 

 tion and gratification to ourselves that we secured his services as 

 President of the Institute. He is not one of those Presidents 

 who accepts the honour without the responsibility and work, and it 

 is really a matter which we are bound to consider as a very great 

 kindness on his part that, although his residence is at the 

 University of Cambridge, he is amongst us so very frequently at 

 our ordinary meetings and almost always at our Annual gatherings. 

 (Applause.) 



Mr. J. Otonba Payne (Registrar of the Supreme Court of 

 Lagos). — My lord, ladies and gentlemen. I beg to second the 

 vote of thanks to the President, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, the 

 greatest physical scientist in England, whose name is known far 

 and wide. 



The Resolution was duly carried. 



The President. — I am much obliged to the proposer and 

 seconder of this Resolution for the kindly and I may say too flatter- 

 ing terms in which they have spoken of myself. I am afraid that 

 I cannot claim to have done very much for this Institute. I left 

 this morning, my own University of Cambridge to be present at 

 this meeting, but I am afraid I have not undertaken the work 

 that is asually undertaken by the President of a Society like 

 this, viz. : that of delivering the Annual Address. I am glad to 

 tnink that there are others who are so well able to take my place 

 in this respect. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



