Gentlemen,—Rarely has a survey of my labours in science, and as a teacher, afforded me so much gratification as on the present occasion. It has been my good fortune to bring about for the first time the introduction into the course of our medical studies, in this place, of a clinical course on Psychiatrie, thus claiming for this branch of medicine its true position as a proper and profitable subject of study, and as one demanding alike systematic and clinical instruction. And, in the first place, it behoves me to express my thanks to all those magistrates who have furthered, in the most intelligent and effective manner, my endeavours to establish this new clinical course. It is about a year since I first mooted the question of the institution of this clinique, and I had the gratification of seeing my ideas rightly understood, and favorably received. Moreover, in the course of the previous winter, the offer was made to me by the government, to undertake the professional direction of the lunatic asylum, an offer which I readily accepted, with a view to this plan for clinical instruction in mental maladies. Hence the speedy establishment of the course. For twenty years, indeed, I have publicly claimed for Psychiatrie its recognition as a regular portion of medical education. Whilst in many other places prevailing difficulties and scruples have defeated the project, we have here speedily found the means to commence this admittedly judicious and useful work, and thereby to secure a new and valuable addition to the educational advantages of our University.