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Opening Address, Session 1866–67
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2014
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Gentlemen,—Of all the agencies which are at work in the material universe, the light of the sun is doubtless the most remarkable, whether we study it in its sanitary, its scientific, or its æsthetical relations In the language of metaphor, it is the very life-blood of nature, without which everything material would fade and perish; the fountain of all our knowledge of the external universe; and the historiographer of the visible creation, recording and transmitting to future ages all that is beautiful and sublime in organic and inorganic nature, and stamping on perennial tablets the hallowed scenes of domestic life, the ever-varying phases of social intercourse and the more exciting scenes of bloodshed and war, which Christians still struggle to reconcile with the obligations of their faith.
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page 4 note * Comptes Rendus, 1855, tom. lv. pp. 363, 456, 643.
page 4 note † lb. 1858, tom. xlvi. p. 441.
page 14 note * “Edinburgh Evening Courant,” Nov. 21, 1866.
page 17 note * Dr Beattie's principal poem.
page 17 note † In a note upon this passage Sir Walter says:— “Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart., unequalled perhaps in the individual affection entertained for him by his friends, as well as in the general respect and esteem of Scotland at large.” See Marmion, canto iv. note ii.
page 23 note * About the same time Professor Rogers published an elaborate paper “On the Origin of the Appalachian Coal Strata, Bituminous and Anthracite.”
page 28 note * A recent edition, with corrections and additions by the Author, has just been published.
page 30 note * See Phil. Trans. 1833, p. 147; 1834, p. 15; 1835, p. 83; 1836, pp. 1, 131. 129; 1837, pp. 79, 227; 1838, p. 231; 1839, pp. 151, 163: 1840, pp. 161, 255.
page 30 note † Report in 1832, pp. 322–365.
page 35 note * Vol. x. p. 89.
page 35 note † Vol. xi. p. 79.
page 35 note ‡ Vol. xiii. p. 214.