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Copernicus, by Father Secchi (1856), suggestions for the 
attainment of a systematic representation of the Moon (1862), 
on the telescopic appearance of the Planet Mars (1863), 
and on the Belts of Jupiter (1863). Notice of the smJace 
of the Sun (1865), with many others on astronomical sub¬ 
jects. In 1864 he was elected President of the British 
Association for the year 1865, and delivered the annual address 
before a large audience at Birmingham. When statements 
from a subsequent occupant of this chair have recently scattered 
a feeling of dissatisfaction, if not of dismay, over the minds 
of many lovers of science, it is well to recall the words of 
so able a philosopher as Professor Phillips. In 1860 he 
delivered the Eede Lecture in the University of Cambridge. 
In the course of that Lecture he said, “ no one who has 
advanced so far in philosophy as to have thought of one thing 
in relation to another will ever be satisfied with laws which had 
no author, works which had no maker, co-ordinations which 
had no designer.” This brief and imperfect notice of the 
life of a great and good man will be closed by the following 
remarks spoken many years ago in this Theatre by one who 
knew him well at Oxford : * ‘‘Of the scientific men who 
have adorned this Institution, the name of John Phillips 
comes to me as that of an intimate friend. He was for 
many years Keeper of the Museum, and then Secretary of this 
Society, and at the same time Secretary to the British Associa¬ 
tion, another link between the local and general association. I 
have known many scientific men, but none who seems to me to 
have more of the metal and temper of the philosopher than 
Professor Phillips. The patience in research, the acuteness of 
observation, the eye and hand of an artist for natural scenery, the 
cheerfulness of temper which naturalists seem often to attain in 
the peaceful field of their labour, the unaffected goodness and 
piety, the reasonable caution which is so needful a counterpoise 
to the pride and over confidence of successful research: all 
these seemed to me to meet in him, and made him one of the 
* See the Inaugural Address of His Grace the Archbishop of York, the 
President of the Society, 1866. 
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