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CONSIDERING the high position in literature and science of my predecessors in this chair, I feel that I have been bold indeed in accepting the distinguished office of President of the Midland Institute during the current year. I shall not attempt to rival my predecessors in those literary or philosophic flights which befitted their powers, but shall confine myself to certain suggestive remarks flowing from personal experience of men and matter, which may prove of some interest to an audience consisting in the main of persons who, like myself, are intent upon combining science with practical aims, but who, unlike myself, have the best part of their career still before them.
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Science and Industry 1 . Nature 24, 619–623 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024619a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/024619a0