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Fellow and President of our College, him to whom the sciences of Magnetism and Electricity owe their origin,—one of those few clear-sighted men who were already practising what Bacon came to teach; and Harvey and Baldmn Hamey, and the founders of the lectureships, Lord Lumley and Dr Caldwell, Lady Sadlier and Dr Goulston; and if I deem it sufficient merely to mention their names, it is because I believe that the College does duly honour them in the best of all ways—by the fulfilment of their wishes; because no posthumous praise can be so suitable a tribute to the memory of Linacre as maintaining worthily, as you. Sir, do maintain, the honour and reputation of his College. We of his College rejoice, Mr President—all men rejoice—that the royal approbation has now set its lasting mark of honour on one, to whom we have so long looked up as among the very worthiest of Linacre's successors.
And now to my other duty, "to exhort the members of the College to study and search out the secrets of Nature by way of experiment."
I can think of only one way in which it would be becoming in me to exhort them. I can point
