ADDEESS 
AT THE OPENING OF THE SESSION 187U-80. 
BY MR. J. BROOKING ROWE, F.S.A., F.L.S., 
President. 
Fellow-Members of the Plymouth Institution ; 
Ladies and Gentlemen, — 
By your favour it becomes my duty, as it is also my 
pleasure, to commence the proceedings of the sixty-eighth session 
of this Society. 
Since the beginning of last session, nothing calling for special 
remark in connection with the Institution has occurred. The work 
has gone on quietly, and I think satisfactorily, and no ground has 
been lost, either in this Hall, or in the Council Chamber upstairs. 
During the past year, Literature, Science and Art have each had 
to deplore the removal by death of some leading votaries, and this 
Society erases from its roll of Members, the names of William 
Froude and Peter Holmes. 
Of the life and arduous labours of the former, many accounts 
have been published. The Society did itself honour in electing 
Mr. Froude an Honorary Member in 1863, and it may be recollected 
that, in 1871, he delivered a lecture in this Hall, upon "The prin- 
ciples upon which a ship's sail-carrying power and steadiness in a 
sea-way depend," an abstract of which appears in the fourth 
volume of our Proceedings. The subject was treated, as might have 
been anticipated, in a most exhaustive and scientific manner, and 
the truths enunciated were illustrated by conclusive experiments, 
made with apparatus of an elaborate character. 
In William Froude we have lost a man of world-wide repute, in 
Peter Holmes we have lost something more. We have lost one 
who was known to every member, one who has done the Society 
