of Edinburgh, Session 1878-79. 211 
have been the motto of Professor Kelland’s life : “ The measure of 
the happiness of a man is the number of things which he loves and 
blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.” Prom the address 
which Professor Kelland delivered to us at the opening of this 
session, I must beg to quote three sentences. The first indicates 
the spirit in which he accepted the office of President. He said : 
“ To myself this honour has come neither to gratify ambition nor to 
administer to self-conceit. It has descended on me all unsought, 
through the kindness of the many friends who have sat with me in 
this room, and the only emotion it awakens is that of affection and 
gratitude.” In the second sentence which I shall recall, Professor 
Kelland evinces his warm interest in the rising generation of scien- 
tific workers. He says : — “ One word which I venture on as both 
encouraging for the present and hopeful for the future, is the remark- 
able number of young men who are just entering on their work. 
In the fasciculus of the Society’s Proceedings just issued, I count 
no less than eleven names of young men just entering on their 
career of investigation. How many of them have caught their 
inspiration from contact with those older workers who have been 
long among us 1 How many have been drawn out and cheered by 
the associations of this room.” In the last sentence which I shall 
quote Professor Kelland teaches us how now we ought to regard 
himself. He says : “ The feelings which arise on casting one’s 
thoughts back through twenty years are full of sadness when they 
fasten on individual members of the Society whose presence at our 
meetings was a source of pleasure not unmixed with pride, but of 
sadness, brightened by glimpses of the future, when w T e think of 
them as members of a living body, as workers even now in the field 
which man has been sent into the world to cultivate — the field 
where truth is to be sought and found.” As a member of that liv- 
ing body, as an immortal worker in that field of truth, with “ sad- 
ness brightened by glimpses of the future,” we must now think of 
Philip Kelland. 
It was moved by the Chairman, “ That the Society should 
request the Council to express to Mrs Kelland and family, 
the great regret experienced by the Society at the death of 
the President.” The motion was carried unanimously. 
