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Salutamus denuo patrern eius, Principem nostrum illustrissimum, quem 
triginta abbinc annos titulo eodem ornatum vidimus ; salutamus matrem, 
omnium consensu pulckerrimam, quam liodie etiam ipsam adesse vebementer 
laetamur. Salutamus Principem, qui prope ex ipsa pueritia scientiae navali 
perdiscendae sese strenue dedicavit ; qui maria magna emensus, colonias 
nostras, toto orbe a nobis divisas, toto corde nobis coniunctas, regni sibi 
aliquando fortasse destinati nondum conscius, invisit ; qui populorum 
magnorum bistoriae studiosus, imperii Britannici gloriam navalem sibi 
carissimam esse identidem indicavit. Nuper Kalendis Iuniis, dum miseri- 
cordia solita pauperum aegrotantium saluti consulebat, classis Britannicae 
victoriam centum abbinc annos eodem anni die reportatam inter omnium 
plausus palam commemoravit. Idem prope uno abbinc anno (iuvat 
recordari) inter regum principumque gratulationes, inter civium exultantium 
acclamationes, Ducis primi Cantabrigiensis neptim ab omnibus dilectam 
vitae totius consortem duxit. Hodie vero, gaudio novo elati, laetamur 
regni tanti beredis beredem filio feliciter esse auctum, et matre salva genus 
regium usque ad tertium gradum prospers esse continuatum. 
Duco ad vos Principem Georgium Fredericum, Ducem Eboracensem. 
Your Grace tlie Chancellor, and members of our University : 
We have now the pleasure of welcoming for the first time, in the name of the University, 
the grandson of our most gracious Queen and of the Prince Consort, our former Chancellor. We 
welcome once again his father, our most illustrious Prince, whom we saw presented for the same 
titular degree just thirty years ago ; we welcome also his mother, confessed by all to be most 
fair, and we heartily rejoice in her presence here to-day. We are now offering our greeting to a 
Prince who, almost from his very boyhood, has zealously devoted himself to acquiring a thorough 
knowledge of the naval profession ; a Prince who, while yet unconscious of the kingdom haply des- 
tined to be his own at some future day, traversed the ocean and visited those colonies that are so 
far from us in geographical distance and are yet so near to us in their feelings of loyal affection ; 
a Prince who, as an eager student of history, has repeatedly proved how dearly he prizes the glory 
of England’s empire on the seas. It was only lately, on the 1st of June, on an occasion when, 
with his wonted compassion, he was showing his interest in promoting the health of our 
afflicted poor, that he recalled amid loud applause the victory gained by the British fleet on 
that very day a hundred years before. It is scarcely a year ago (as we rejoice to remember) 
when, amid the congratulations of kings and princes, and amid the loud acclaim of a rejoicing 
people, his Royal Highness wedded a Princess who is universally beloved, a Princess who is the 
grand-daughter of the first Duke of Cambridge. And now we have a new cause for rejoicing 
in the birth of a Prince who happily continues the line of the descendants of the Queen to a third 
generation, as heir to the son of the heir apparent of the throne of England. 
I present to your Grace and to the University His Royal Highness Prince Geohue Frederick, 
Duke op York. 
His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, K. G. 
Sequitur deinceps Universitatis Aberdoniebsis Cancellarius, vir in publi- 
cis rebus saepenumero cum laude versatus, cuius pater agricolarum societati 
quinquaginta qualtuor abbinc annos praeses prope primus fuit, quique ipse 
societati eidem bis praepositus, inter Oxonienses suos lionoris titulo anno 
eodem est ornatus, quo Cancellarii nostri pater, Cancellarius ipse, societati 
praefuit. Virum tot titulis iam pridem ornatum etiam nosmet ipsi liodie 
libenter decoramus. Atqui nullum titulum ipsi potiorem esse credimus 
quam a Principe nostro inter epulas regias societatis suae in lionorem babi- 
tas palam fuisse appellatum “ agricolarum amicum.” 
Duco ad vos periscelidis equitem illustrissimum, Ducem de IIichmond. 
Next in order comes liis Grace the Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen. His Grace has 
often won distiuctionln the public service ; his father was the second rresident of the Society, four- 
and-fifty years ago ; he has himself been its President on two occasions ; and he received an 
honorary degree from his own University of Oxford in the year in which the President of the 
Society was the late Duke of Devonshire, then Chancellor of our University, and the father of our 
present Chancellor. "We gladly pay honour to-day to one who has long been adorned with many 
titles of distinction ; and yet we venture to think that at the present moment there is no distinc- 
tion which he prizes more highly than the fact that, at the banquet given in honour of the Royal 
Agricultural Society by her gracious Majesty the Queen, he was publicly designated by ths 
Prince of Wales as The Farmer's Friend. 
I present to you an illustrious Knight of the Garter, his Grace the Duke of Richmond, 
