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1892 - 93 .] Chairman's Ojgming Address. 
Rectori Magnifico et Doctissimo Senatui Universitatis Patavinse. 
ViRI ILLUSTRISSIMI, 
Societas Regia Edinensis commemorationem illius diei, quo 
Galilseus Galilseus cathedram ascendit Universitatis Patavinae, con- 
celebrare vult, et reverentiam praestare illi summo viro, qui impa- 
vidus, magno veritatis percussus amore, quamvis obstante altissima 
potestate, verum mundi systema ingeniosis observationibus con- 
firmavit, atque certam et fructuosam naturae indagandae mcthoduni 
invenit atque illustravit. 
Nos illustri Collegae nostro Honorario Professor! 
Cremonae viceni Societatis repraesentandae manda- 
vinius. 
Douglas Maclagan, Prseses. 
P. G. Tait, a Secretis. 
Apud Aulam Societatis 
Edinburgi, iii. Cal. Dec. 1892. 
A very general desire having been felt to give effect in a sub- 
stantial and permanent form to the high appreciation entertained of 
Professor Tait’s services to the Society, it was considered that the 
most appropriate way of doing this would be to have his portrait 
painted, and placed in the Society’s meeting-room, along with the 
portraits of the eminent men — Presidents and Secretaries — who 
have shed lustre on the Society. The portrait is the work of Sir 
George Reid, P.R.S.A., and will be presented to-night. 
