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occupy their true place, and fulfil aright their appointed office, 
when they copy the heavenly elders, cast down their meaner 
chaplets and coronets before the throne of the Most High, and 
take up with heart and voice that celestial song of praise • 
“ Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive honour, and glory, and 
power ; for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure 
they are, and were created.” 
Since these remarks were penned, I have seen in the Revue des Deux 
Mondes, of May 15, the following note to an able article on recent solar 
discoveries : — 
“ The apparent analogy of this double belt of spots, which extends on one 
side and another of the solar equator, with the terrestrial zone of the trade 
winds has led Sir J. Herschcl and M . Spoeren to suppose the existence of 
winds of the same kind at the surface of the sun. But the theory of solar 
trade winds wants any serious foundation, for one does not see what 
could produce on the atmosphere of the sun a circulation like that which 
is the cause of terrestrial winds . — “ La Constitution de Soleil,” note 2, 
p. 445. 
The view here set aside, because the writer “ does not see ” any serious 
ground for it, is precisely the same which I have affirmed, to result from the 
laws of dynamics, applied to a joint system of matter and self-repulsive ether; 
and which has thus the sanction of two of the foremost names in general 
astronomy and spectroscopy, from direct observation of the solar phenomena 
alone. 
Mr. S. D. Waddy, M.P. — I have the honour of being allowed to move, 
“ That our best thanks be presented to the Rev. Professor Birks for the 
Annual Address now delivered, and also to those who have read papers during 
the session.” (Hear, hear.) I apprehend that this resolution divides itself 
into, from one point of view, two very distinct, and yet, from another point 
of view, two very intimately connected parts. The resolution, first of all, 
deals with the special address which we have just heard ; and I cannot help 
thinking that it has also to do with the annual addresses of bygone years, 
and also with the steady, regular rank-and-file of the papers that have 
been delivered during the whole year. With regard to the address we have 
just heard, I hope I have too much common sense and good taste to say any- 
thing at all in the presence of the rev. Professor, for I am suro that if I 
thought it necessary to say anything in its behalf that would be its deepest 
condemnation. (Hear.) I do not and I should not for one moment think of 
degrading the address we have just heard by saying anything whatever in its 
praise ; but I do think it right to point out that, in my opinion, science, and 
Christian science in particular, has much to be thankful for in the annual 
addresses, which from year to year it has been our privilege to listen to and 
to read. (Hear, hear.) I havo been thinking this over, and I have been 
