BELFAST 



NATURAL HISTORY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



SESSION 1902-1903. 



$th November, 1902. 



THE LIQUEFACTION OF GASES. 



Inaugural Address by the President, J. Brown, F.R.S. 



{Abstract.) 



Before taking up the subject proper of my address, will you 

 permit me to express my very grateful appreciation of the 

 honour conferred upon my unworthiness by your Council in 

 electing me as your President for a third term ? There is no 

 honour which I value more highly, nor any commendations 

 which appeal to me more than such as come from our own 

 Society, in which I have for the last twenty years or more 

 taken a lively interest and an active part. 



In dealing with the subject generally of liquefied gases in 

 this place I feel that I have the privilege of entering on a field 

 made famous by the work of one of our own citizens in our 

 own town. I think it was my friend Professor Fitzgerald who 

 remarked that if the name of our city were to be mentioned 

 in any university in the civilised world the name of one man, 



