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BEFORE our next number appears, most of the celebrations connected with the fiftieth anniversary of the Queen's accession will have taken place; and in London, at all events, the gorgeous ceremonials which are now being prepared for next Tuesday will have been the admiration of hundreds of thousands of Her Majesty's loyal subjects. It is therefore quite right and fitting that in a journal devoted to the progress of science, which the history of the last fifty years has shown to be the main basis of modern civilization, we should for a moment turn aside from our true function—that of fostering and recording the progress of natural knowledge—and dwell for one moment on the subject now uppermost in all minds, and dear to most British hearts. We know that in loyalty the students of Nature in these islands are second to none; and their gladness at the happy completion of the fifty years' reign, and their respect for the fifty years' pure and beautiful life, are also, we believe, second to none. But the satisfaction which they feel on these grounds is tempered when they consider, as men of science must, all the conditions of the problem.
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The Jubilee . Nature 36, 145–146 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036145a0
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