Proceedings Of The Cambridge Philosophical Society Volume Vii October 28 1889 May 30 1892

Excerpt from Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 7: October 28, 1889 May 30, 1892 When the President of a Society lays down his office, it is usual that he should take a more or less extended view of the past history of the body with which been connected, thank his officers, and anticipate a brilliant future from the efforts of his successor. I have no wish to depart from these excellent precedents. I am using no empty phrase when I say that I felt it a distinguished, and not wholly deserved, honour to be chosen to succeed my dear friend Mr Coutts Trotter - one who by his intellectual attainments, by the breadth of his sympathies, and by his unwearied efforts to develop the scientific side of University training, was so distinctly marked out as the proper person to preside over a Philosophical Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.