I must commence this course by saying that I feel the honour that has been done me in asking me to undertake it, connected as it is with the name of Tyndall, whose recent removal from our midst has been deplored by all lovers of science, and by none more than by those who have had the privilege of listening to him at this Institution. It is my duty to speak on some subject of physics, and the subject I have chosen is Colour Vision. I hope it will not be considered inappropriate, since it was Thomas Young, the physicist, whose connection with this Institution is well known, who first propounded a really philosophical theory of the subject. Interesting as it may be to trace how old theories ha…
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