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The jubilee was the climax, not the end, of a great career. In 
the remarks made by Lord Kelvin himself on that occasion, 
nothing was more striking than the tones of buoyant hope that 
rang through every sentence, and one felt that the speaker’s intel- 
lectual eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. The 
Fellows of this Society join in the hope that Lord Kelvin may 
yet see many days, and that he may still be able to use his power- 
ful intellect and rare inventive faculty in the service of science. 
To this I must add that not a few among us have come under the 
spell of his personal friendship, and to us he is even more than 
the mathematician or the philosopher. 
Appointment op Delegates and Representatives. 
In compliance with an invitation, the Council appointed two of 
its members, Dr Hunter Stewart and Mr Mossman, to represent 
them at the meeting of the Sanitary Association held at Newcastle. 
The Council also appointed one of its Secretaries, Dr John 
Murray, to represent them at the International Fishery Congress 
that met last September at Sables d’Olonne, in France, a request 
having been made that the Society should send a Delegate. 
Dr John Murray and Dr Noel Paton were appointed to represent 
the Society at the opening of the Gatty Marine Laboratory at St 
Andrews on the 30th of October last. We all wish much success 
to a Laboratory so advantageously placed for the study of the 
Fauna of the Firth of Forth. 
You will be aware that a member of Council, Professor D’Arcy 
Thompson, was appointed by the Government a Commissioner to 
report on the aspects of the Seal Fishery in Behring’s Straits, and 
on its international relations. 
Papers op last Session. 
I shall not, on this occasion, attempt to give an analysis of the 
many important communications made to the Society. Suffice it to 
say that they dealt with many subjects, — Mathematical, Physical, 
Physiological, Zoological, and Meteorological, and also relating to 
Public Health. 
Dr Anderson’s Discovery . 
It is interesting to mention that the Rev. Dr Anderson, who 
