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Inaugural and Anniversary Addresses of the Royal Society

Inaugural Address, delivered by Mr. Justice Barry, President of the Institute, at the Opening Converzazione, 22nd Sept., 1854

Inaugural Address of the President, Captain Clarke, R. E., Surveyor-General, &c., &c.

Anniversary Address of the President, the Honourable Andrew Clarke, Captain R. E., M.P., Surveyor-General of Victoria, &c., &c., &c.

Anniversary Address of the President, His Honor Sir William Foster Stawell, Knight, Chief Justice of Victoria, &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Institute, 12th April, 1858]

Anniversary Address of the President, Ferdinand Mueller, Esq., Ph.D., M.D. F.R.G. and L.S., &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Institute, 28th March, 1859]

Address of the President, Ferdinand Mueller, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.G. & L.S., &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Institute at the Inauguration of the Hall, January 23rd, 1860.]

Inaugural Address of the President, His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., &c., &c. [Delivered to the Members of the Royal Society, at the Anniversary Meeting held on the 10th April, 1860.]

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Inaugural and Anniversary Addresses of the Royal Society of Victoria and its Predecessors - Endnotes

1. Aristotle classified his Lectures as—1st, acroamatic, acroatic or esoteric; 2nd, exoteric. The latter, delivered in public, comprised logic, rhetoric, andeconomics, &c. The former, to which his select disciples alone were admitted, related to the Deity, being nature, &c. [Return to page 108]

2. Vide Bacon, especially "Nova Atlantis, Magnalia Naturæ." One of the least oracular and most poetical of these is that well-known passage from Dr. Darwin:—

Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide waving wings expanded bear
The flying chariot through the fields of air.
Fair crews triumphant, bearing from above,
Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move;
Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd,
And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.
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3. Humanity must mourn and the Muse of History must blush while the names of Socrates, Galileo, Faust, More, Servetum, &c., stand on record; and the persecutions of the Christians, by the fierce Nero, the cruel Domitian, the virtuous Traian, the just Adrian, the pious Antonine, the ambitious Severus, and the indiscriminate fury of Maximin, Decius, Valerian, Diocletian, Maximinian, Galerius, &c.; and of each other by—But let not the wounded bleed afresh. [Return to page 109]

4. Purple.
—Tyrioque ardebat murice loenà,
Demissa ex humeris.
i.e., of the Pious Æneas.—Virg. Æ. IV., 263. [Return to page 113]

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