ADDEESS 



BY 



SIE JOHN EVANS, K.O.B. 

 D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., Treas.R.S., V.P.S.A., For.Sec.G.S. 



CORKESPONDANT DE l'InSTITUT DE FrANCE, <fec. 



PRESIDENT. 



Once more has the Dominion of Canada invited the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science to hold one of the annual meetings of its 

 members within the Canadian territory ; and for a second time has the 

 Association had the honour and pleasure of accepting the proffered 

 hospitality. 



In doing so, the Association has felt that if by any possibility the 

 scientific welfare of a locality is promoted by its being the scene of such a 

 meeting, the claims should be fully recognised of those who, though not 

 dwelling in the British Isles, are still inhabitants of that Greater Britain 

 whose prosperity is so intimately connected with the fortunes of the 

 Mother Country. 



Here, especially, as loyal subjects of one beloved Sovereign, the sixtieth 

 year of whose beneficent reign has just been celebrated with equal rejoic- 

 ing in all parts of her Empire ; as speaking the same tongue, and as in 

 most instances connected by the ties of one common parentage, we are 

 bound together in all that can promote our common interests. 



There is, in all probability, nothing that will tend more to advance 

 those interests than the diffusion of science in all parts of the British 

 Empire, and it is towards this end that the aspirations of the British 

 Association are ever directed, even if in many instances the aim may not 

 be attained. 



We are, as already mentioned, indebted to Canada for previous hos- 

 pitality, but we must also remember that, since the time when we last 

 assembled on this side of the Atlantic, the Dominion has provided the 



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