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WHEN, on returning from India, I found that you had during my absence done me the honour of unanimously electing me your President, I began to cast about for a subject on which to address you. Curiously enough, shortly afterwards an official inquiry compelled me to make myself acquainted with the early doings of the Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851, on which I have lately been elected to serve, and in my reading I found a full account of the establishment of your Institute; of the laying of the, foundation-stone by the late Prince Consort in 1855, and of his memorable speech on that occasion. Here, I thought, was my subject; and when I heard that the admirable work done by this and other local institutions had determined the inhabitants of this important city and neighbourhood to crown the edifice by the foundation of a University, I thought the matter settled.
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The Chemistry of the Stars1. Nature 59, 32–36 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059032c0
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