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in the order in which they appeared upon the printed diary, programme 

 of proceedings, and hst of delegates : 



University of California Prof. H. C. Plummer 



University of Chicago Prof. E. B. Frost 



Clark University, Worcester Prof. Arthur G. Webster 



Columbia University, New York Dr. N. Murray Butler, President 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y Prof. J. H. Comstock 



Harvard University Prof. B. O. Peirce 



Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Prof. W. Bullock Clark 



Leland Stanford Junior University, California.. Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg 



University of Michigan Prof. William H. Hobbs 



University of Minnesota Dr. Arthur Hamilton 



University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Dr. Edgar F. Smith, Provost 

 University of Princeton, New Jersey. . . Prof. John G. Hibben, President 



University of Wisconsin Prof. Charles K. Leith 



Yale University Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley , President 



American Academy of Sciences, Boston Prof. Edwin H. Hall 



Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.. Prof. W. E. Brown, F.R.S. 

 American Mathematical Society, New York. .Prof. H. B. Fine, President 

 American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 



Prof. W. B. Scott, Vice-President. 



Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Major G. O. Squier 



California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. . . .Mr. Joseph D. Grant 



Carnegie Institution, Washington Dr. R. S. Woodward, President 



National Academy of Sciences, Washington 



Dr. Arnold Hague, Secretary 



Smithsonian Institution, Washington Dr. Arnold Hague 



Washington Academy of Sciences Dr. L. O. Howard 



On Monday night, July 15, 1912, exactly 250 years from the date 

 of the passage of the Charter by the Great Seal, Burlington House, 

 become famous during the last 65 years from the notable social and 

 scientific functions of the Society, was brilliantly illuminated, and the 

 delegates assembled, many of them just from their steamers and trains, 

 for the purpose of registration and for informal meeting and the making 

 and renewal of acquaintance. 



The first formal function took place the next morning, Tuesday, the 

 16th, at Westminster Abbey. The heat of the day was excessive. It 

 would have been excessive even in Washington, and in London it was 

 almost overpowering. The majority of the delegates wore academic 

 dress, and the service was attended by many distinguished Englishmen 

 high in rank or in political service, one of the naves of the cathedral 

 being reserved for delegates, the remainder of the space being filled by 

 London society. Addison's superb hymn, "The Spacious Firmament 

 on High," was sung by the choir, and, while appropriate to the occasion 



