34 



TO 

 SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, Bart., 



LL.D., D.SC, F.II.S. 



We, the Vice-Presidents, Council, Members and Associates 

 of the Victoria Institute, desire to offer our most sincere 

 congratulations to you, our President, on the occasion of the 

 Jubilee of your tenure of the Lucasian Professorship of 

 ]\Iathematics in the University of Cambridge. 



We shall not attempt to enumerate your varied and 

 valuable achievements in different branches of science, but 

 will confine ourselves to expressing our deep appreciation of 

 your labours in the field of Natural Religion. It has 

 strengthened the faith of many to find that one so well able 

 to judge as yourself has not found Religion and Science 

 antagonistic, but you have in many instances — notably in 

 your Gifford Lectures — either given able and convincing- 

 expositions of their harmony, or have clearly demonstrated 

 the wisdom of a suspense of judgment till the advance of 

 human knowledge may enable solutions to be discovered for 

 problems as yet unsolved. 



We trust the Victoria Institute and its high objects may 

 long have the; advantage of your Presidency, and that every 

 blessing may be vouchsafed to you, to Lady Stokes, and to 

 your family. 



(Signed) HALSBURY. 



Victoria Institute, 



Jimeldt/i,lSdd. 



F. W. II. Petrie, Capt., 

 J Ion. Sec, 



