22 THE ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE VICTOEIA INSTITUTE. 



creatures, to adapt them to the kind of life that their Creator 

 intended them to pass. 



I could not help feeling also, when the Address was being 

 delivered, somewhat of the sensations which I believe are attri- 

 buted to every medical student when ho begins to study his 

 subjects. He is supposed to undergo the sensations of every 

 disease he reads of, and I began to have the horrid sensation 

 that I should like to feel my eye and know what was going on 

 there — (laughter), — but that is one of those things that one has lo 

 overcome ! 



Further, I should have liked to have heard more on the subject 

 of Colour. It is a subject that possesses a great deal of interest for 

 us all ; for when we remember that our life very often depends, 

 when we travel by railway, on the poAver of the perception of 

 colour, and indeed when we travel in the great vessels that 

 traverse the ocean, vi:^. : whether it is the red or the green light 

 of the port or stai'boai-d bow that is exhibited F For very often 

 confusion in that respect leads to the occurrence of those ghastly 

 collisions which make us tremble when we hear of them. I 

 confess I should have heard with great interest some reference 

 to colour vision or colour blindness. But I hope on a future 

 occasion we may hear more about it. 



At present 1 have to express (and I am sure you will all join 

 with me) our very hearty thanks to Sir Gabriel Stokes for the 

 very interesting Address that he has been good enough to give us 

 — (applause) ; also to those authors who have read papers during 

 the past session. 



Rev. Professor A. H. Sayce, D.D. — I have very great pleasure 

 in seconding this resolution. There are two reasons that make 

 me doubt whether I am a fit person to whom this responsible 

 office should be assigned. On the one hand, owing to my absence 

 in another portion of the world during a great part of the year, I 

 have not had the pleasure of hearing the papers read before the 

 Institute, and have had to be content, therefore, with reading 

 them; and, on the other hand, though I am a University Professor, 

 1 am unacquainted with physical science. Last summer I had the 

 jileasare of hearing the Address delivered by Lord Salisbury 



