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Km. Magyar Termeszettudomanyi Tarsulat, Budapest. 



VIII, Eszterhazy-Utcza 16 Szam. 71/1912. 

 The President, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Sir: 



The Royal Hungarian Society of Natural Sciences desires to thank you 

 for the cordial invitation to participate in the festivities on the occasion of the 

 100th Anniversary of your Academy and regrets that it cannot send repre- 

 sentatives to personally express its heartiest congratulations. 



Kindly accept the felicitations of our Society for the splendid successes 

 which have attended the efforts of your Academy in the past, and warmest 

 wishes that the Academy may enjoy prosperity in the future. 



Yours very truly, 



Dr. Lengyel Bela, 

 President. 



Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia. 



To the Corresponding Secretary, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia : 



The Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia feels deeply honoured at the kind 

 invitation extended to it by The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

 to attend the celebration of its Centenary Anniversary, but regrets to say that, 

 owing to the distance and the shortness of the time available, it will be unable 

 to send any delegate to represent it in person at the said celebration. 



The Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, however, begs to claim its share in the 

 congratulations offered to your distinguished Academy on the attainment of the 

 first centenary of its existence and to tender its tribute to the splendid services 

 rendered by your Academy to the cause of science and scholarship. This 

 tribute must unfortunately be tendered in writing, owing to the reasons afore- 

 said, but it is offered in a spirit of the most heartfelt appreciation and esteem for 

 the services your distinguished Academy has rendered to humanity. 



The Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia begs to couple its tribute of homage and 

 its message of congratulation with the fervent hope that your distinguished 

 Academy may continue for many a century to be such a bulwark of science and 

 scholarship and foremost outpost of human progress as it has been during the 

 past hundred years. 



A. Berzeviczy, 



President. 

 Budapest, 10. March, 1912. 



