REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. Ixxxvii 



At this meeting an invitation which has been received from the 

 Corporation of Glasgow to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association 

 in 1901 in that city will be presented to the General Committee. 



The Council, acting on behalf of the Association, have presented to 

 Her Majesty the Queen the following Address of Congratulation on the 

 completion of the sixtieth year of her reign : — 



To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. 



May it please your Majesty, — 



We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the President and 

 Council of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 desire most respectfully to approach your Majesty with the expression of 

 our sincere and heartfelt congratulations on the completion of the sixtieth 

 year of your Majesty's auspicious reign. 



During that reign, which has exceeded in length that of any of your 

 illustrious predecessors, the increase in prosperity of your Majesty's 

 subjects has been unparalleled. 



This advance in the welfare of the nation has been in no small degree 

 due to the astonishing progress of science during this period, and its 

 application to the details of daily life ; and we thankfully recognise the 

 interest constantly displayed both by your Majesty and by members of 

 your Royal Family in the promotion of science. Of this, the acceptance 

 by His Royal Highness the late lamented Prince Consort of the Presidency 

 of this Association at Aberdeen, in the year 1859, was a conspicuous 

 illustration. 



That your Majesty's subjects in all parts of the globe are united in 

 their efforts to promote the advancement of knowledge is evinced by the 

 fact that the Association holds its annual meeting this year at Toronto, 

 on the invitation of one of the principal Dependencies of your Empire, the 

 great Dominion of Canada. 



There, as here, the Members of the Association will ever pray that 

 your Majesty may long be spared to rule over a contented, grateful, and 

 united Empire. 



Signed on behalf of the Council, 



Lister, 



President. 



June 23, 1897. 



The Address was laid before the Queen by the Home Secretary, who 

 has informed the Council that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the 

 same very graciously. 



