444 Proceedings of Boyal Society of Edinburgh. [sess. 
The Chairman read the following Address which had been 
presented to His Majesty King Edward on his accession to the 
Throne 
To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Loyal and 
Dutiful Address of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
May it please Your Majesty : 
We, the Koyal Society of Edinburgh, humbly approach Your 
Majesty, on your accession to the Throne, with the expression of 
our sincere and earnest sympathy towards yourself, your Royal 
Consort, and the members of the Koyal Family, on your bereave- 
ment, and our sense of the great loss which has befallen the 
nation through the death of our revered and beloved Sovereign, 
Queen Yictoria. 
We feel assured that the memory of your Royal Mother, the 
late Queen, whose life was devoted to the welfare of her subjects, 
will ever be held in affectionate remembrance by all who are 
privileged to owe allegiance to the Crown, and that Her Majesty’s 
name will be illustrious in history, not only for the greatness and 
power of the Empire which was consolidated in her reign, but for 
the wisdom and justice with which the Empire was administered 
under her guidance and example. 
We desire respectfully to express our good wishes and our hope 
that Your Majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign, as 
Sovereign of the many territories and races over which you have 
been called by Divine providence to preside. Your Majesty’s 
most gracious assurance that your life would be devoted to the 
service of the State, springs from the same sense of public duty 
which inspired our lamented Queen, and gives the promise of a 
brilliant and prosperous future for the Empire under your 
Majesty’s sovereignty, which we trust may be of long duration. 
Following the example and inclination of your revered Father, 
the Prince Consort, Your Majesty has shown a warm interest in 
the advancement of science, literature, and art ; and we feel sure 
that it will be in accordance with Your Majesty’s feelings and 
wishes that your reign may be distinguished by the progress of 
the nation in all fields of intellectual activity. 
