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regarded as the case. It remained only to wait for a fitting time 

 and occasion to perform the ceremony of uncovering the stone — a 

 gracious office which you, Sir, have kindly undertaken to perform 

 to-day. It will be found when you have done so that the stone 

 bears the inscription, *' The Victoria Telescope," and the date 1897, 

 the year when the donor intended that the telescope should be com- 

 pleted and this ceremony performed. It is named the Victoria 

 Telescope in honour of the great and good Queen whose jubilee it 

 was intended to celebrate, and to whose beloved memory only it 

 must now stand. I venture to hope it will long stand to honour that 

 memory and to fulfil, by useful work, the noble intentions of its 

 large-minded donor. 



