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Opening Address. Session 1860–61
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 March 2015
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It is with no affectation of humility, it is with no mock modesty that I earnestly bespeak your kind indulgence for the discharge of the duty to which I have been called this evening. My diffidence in this matter arises from no want of interest in the work assigned to me, but from knowing how much I lack that extent of knowledge and that degree of experience which seem to be required for the position in which I am placed, and for such an audience as I have the honour to address. I find different scientific associations adopt different rules. In some cases the secretary makes, in name of the council, a general report of the whole proceedings during the past year; in fact, very much in the business style of the secretary of a railway company. In some cases, the address is delivered on the anniversary of the society by the president, who makes a distribution of its medals and prizes previous to his vacating his office.
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page 471 note * History of the Royal Society of London, by Birch.
page 473 note * The Crown its Patron.
page 477 note * The names are alphabetically arranged.
page 478 note * In 1813 he returned to the Continent, and was our ambassador to the Austrian Court; there he was long engaged in cementing the alliance formed against the power of Napoleon. He was present at many great battles.—Lutzen, Dresden, Leipsic—Moreau died in his tent at Dresden; and it was his impressions received from these dreadful battles that gave Lord Aberdeen that great horror he entertained for war through life.
page 478 note † A kind friend informs me that the best account of Lord Aberdeen's public life is a memoir by Comte de Jaumais, in the “Revue de deux Mondes.” But I have not had time or opportunity for consulting it.
page 481 note * As the ϰсσμητριαι, or ornamenters of some deity.
page 486 note * Sir John Campbell, whilst a member of the House of Commons, did good service to the country by promoting at all times the cause of legal reforms. He introduced two very important bills which are known by his name. One for the protection of proprietors of newspapers who had inserted libels without malice of purpose, and having made due apologies. The other for the protection of persons against malicious arrest for debts which were not due. The latter arose out of a famous case of arrest, and great hardship, of the Duke of Caduval on a false affidavit.
page 491 note * Those who best knew Lord Campbell in private life bear testimony to his amiable and affectionate deportment in the domestic circle. To his habitual unselfishness, which made him seek the comfort and happiness of every one before his own, and to the freshness and simplicity with which he enjoyed, with young people especially, the few simple pleasures for which his immense labours left him time.