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Opening Address, Session 1864–65

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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In opening this Session of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, at the close of my tenure of the Presidency, I must express my sincere regret on account of the small amount of attendance which it has been in my power to give. I can only assure you that, if I had had the opportunity, my attendance would have been far more regular; and that nothing but the impossibility of reconciling this with other duties has prevented my occupying this chair as often as the honour you have done me, and not less my own inclination, would have led me to do.

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Proceedings 1864-65
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1866

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References

page no 266 note * Aristotle. By G. H. Lewes. P. 84.

page no 267 note * Outlines of Astronomy. 3d ed. p. 265.

page no 272 note * Elements of Comparative Anatomy, p. 2.

page no 275 note * Origin of Species, p. 131 (1st edition).

page no 275 note † Ibid. p. 351.

page no 276 note * Origin of Species, p. 200 (1st edition).

page no 282 note * Gould's “Trochilidæ,” Introduction.

page no 285 note * Gould's “Trochilidæ,” Introduction.

page no 287 note * Meditations sur l'Essence de la Religion Chrétienne. p. 49.

page no 287 note † “We discern no evidence of a pause or intermission in the creation or coming-to-be of new plants and animals.”—Instances of the Fower of God as manifested in His Animal Creation. by Professor Owen.

page no 289 note * Méditations sur l'Essence de la Religion Chrétienne, p. 22.

page no 291 note * Lewis' Aristotle, p. 66.

page no 292 note * Fide intelligimus aptata esse sæcula verbo Dei; ut ex iiivisibilibus visibilia fierent.— Vulgate.