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Royal Geographical Society. 



1, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London, W., February 14, 1912. 

 To the President, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Sir: 



On my own behalf as President, and on behalf of the Council of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, I beg to offer you our warmest congratulations on the 

 celebration of the Centenary of the foundation of The Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. 



It reflects the highest credit on the United States of America that so early 

 in its career as an independent State, an institution should have been established 

 for the pursuit of natural knowledge, and as a centre of culture and enlighten- 

 ment, in the midst of a population which was naturally strenuous in the develop- 

 ment of the material resources of a great country. The Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia soon achieved and has throughout maintained a position 

 as one of the great scientific societies of the world, and its publications contain 

 many contributions of original value in the various departments of scientific 

 investigation, as well as of practical importance to humanity at large and to 

 America in particular. 



Our earnest wish is that the Academy may long continue to carry out with 

 as much success as in the past, its beneficent services to science and to its country. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Yours most sincerely, 



CURZON OF KEDLESTON, 



President, Royal Geographical Society. 



