The Celebration of the 250th anniversary, July 15-19, 1912.

  • Royal Society (Great Britain)
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1913
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Credit: The Celebration of the 250th anniversary, July 15-19, 1912. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Roll of its Fellows bears the names of almost all the illustrious men of two and a half centuries. Many of these we can recall whose names have adorned our own Roll, and we cherish with peculiar satisfaction the recollection that the late Lord Kelvin, during wellnigh sixty years, gave liberally of the offspring of his great genius to forward the interests of both societies. We also recall with pride that on the celebration of the Centenary of our Society in 1902 we were honoured by a cordial greeting from the Royal Society—the Mother and the Model of all the learned societies in the English-speaking world. It is our earnest hope that the Royal Society may long continue, with ever fresh ardour and increasing power, to carry on its great work for the advancement of knowledge. Signed on behalf of the Members of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, this second day of July, Nineteen hundred and twelve. JOHN GLAISTER, President. IRELAND University of Dublin (Trinity College) Societati Regiae Universitas Dublinensis S. P. D.—Societas vestra, viri doctissimi, quae rerum naturalium investigatoribus, tamquam sol, in regno nostro lucem et calorem praebet, vim beneficam tamdiu et tam efficaciter exercet ut vix animo concipere possimus olim, neque multis abhinc annis si vitam nationis quis consideret, earn non esse exortam. Sed cum invitatio vestra benignissima venerat ut gaudii vestri participes essemus quo quartam partem millennii naviter et feliciter peractam celebraturi estis, recordati sumus quanta et qualia in brevi spatio animus excelsus, improbi laboris prodigus, veritatis amore instinctus efficere possit. Gratis animis agnoscimus nullam esse rerum naturae partem quae non manum adiutricem Societatis vestrae senserit, sive quis ad extremos mundi fines iverit ut ad Arctoum polum via pateret, sive maris altitudines rimatus sit ut quae ibi latitarent plantae atque animalia cognoscerentur, sive ad coelum oculorum verterit obtutum ut transi- tiones planetarum ibi dispicerentur. Quid ? opere vestro vetus cohors febrium plane fugata est et morborum vis malefica sensim in dies debilitatur: denique in omni genere laboris beneficentia vestra munere suo salutari semper fungitur. Meminisse iuvat inter auctores Societatis vestrae fuisse Robertum Boyle nostratem, multosque Hiberniae filios in Albo Sociorum vestrorum inscriptos esse, inter quos praecipuo honore nominandus est unus e Praesidibus vestris illustrissimis Gulielmus Thomson, Baro Kelvin, cuius infantia coelum hausit Hibernicum. Laeti igitur libentesque vobis gratulationes et grates agimus, et delegamus virum doctum e coetu nostro eundemque coetui vestro iamdudum adscriptum, paene tam vobis dilectum quam nobis, Iohannem