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CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
The following is the Address presented to the Prince of Wales, by the Canadian 
Institute, on the occasion of the recent visit of His Royal Highness to Toronto. 
To His Royal Highness, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G., de. de. ke. 
May ir PLease your Royat Higunuss,—The President, Council, and Members 
of the Canadian Institute, incorporated by Royal Charter for the promotion of 
Science and Literature in this province, humbly approach your Royal Highness 
with loyal and affectionate greetings; and tender to you, with unfeigned respect, 
their welcome on this auspicious occasion. 
While the energies of this province are chiefly directed to the development of 
its vast agricultural capabilities, and to the fostering of trade and commerce, as 
the essential sources of its material prosperity, the Canadian Institute specially 
devotes itself to investigations and researches such as lead to the discovery of 
abstract truths in Science, but which ultimately tend to the intellectual and social 
progress of man. While, therefore, uniting with their fellow subjects in this 
province of the Empire, in welcoming your Royal Highness with grateful and 
hearty loyalty, as the representative of their beloved Queen, and the heir apparent 
to the British Throne, they beg leave respectfully to tender their loyal congratula- 
tions unitedly as an Institute devoted to objects and pursuits specially fostered 
by Her Majesty’s countenance, and to the furtherance of which the illustrious 
Prince Consort has extended his highest favour and influence. 
Enjoying as they do all the priceless blessings derived from institutions by right 
of which Her Gracious Majesty rules over a free and united people ; and sharing 
in the glories, and sympathising in all the interests of the empire,—of which this 
province forms no unimportant member,—they hail with loyal satisfaction the 
presence of your Royal Highness, on whom rest the future hopes of this Great 
Empire. Their earnest prayer is, that, endowed with all noblest graces and divine 
blessings, trained in sound learnirg, and gifted with a liberal love of Science and 
the Arts, you may be eminently fitted for the high trust of which you are the 
heir. May he who is the King of Kings, long spare to you, as to them, her who, 
while commanding honour from your filial heart, lives not less fondly in the 
affections of a willing people. On her sceptre, the virtues of their loved and 
gracious Queen have conferred a might more potent than ever ruler achieved by 
conquest. Under its genial sway, science and letters have accomplished triumphs 
which will render the Victorian era illustrious in all future ages ; and while other 
nations are struggling to attain such privileges as her subjects freely enjoy, the 
British Empire—the sceptre of which they trust will hereafter be no less illustrious 
in your hands than in those of their beloved Queen—has girdled the world with a 
glorious confederacy of provinees, alike united in freedom, in intellectual progress, 
and loyal devotion to their Sovereign head. 
In their united capacity, as an Institution incorporated by Royal Charter, and 
specially recognised by Provincial Parliament, as representatives of the interests 
of Science and Letters, the President, Council, and Members of the Canadian 
Institute renew their assurances of devoted loyalty to Her Gracious Majesty, and 
of cordial welcome to your Royal Highness. 
D. WILSON, LL.D., President. 
