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CENTENARY OF FOUNDATION, 1799-1899. 



In the month of June, 1899, the Royal Institution of Great Britain 

 completed one hundred years of its existence, the first meeting of its 

 members in the building in Albemarle Street having been held on 

 June 5, 1799. 



The President, Managers and Professors, having decided that this 

 event, so interesting and memorable in the life of the Institution, and 

 in the history of Science in this country, should be duly celebrated, 

 invited many eminent scientific representatives from other countries 

 to take part in the proceedings of the Centenary Celebration. 



Monday, June 5, 1899. 

 CENTENARY BANQUET 



TO THE GUESTS OF THE INSTITUTION. 



The guests were entertained by the President and Managers at a 

 Centenary Banquet, held in the hall of the Merchant Taylors' 

 Company, kindly lent for the purpose, on Monday, June 5, and had 

 the honour of meeting His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G., 

 Vice-Patron of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. His Grace 

 the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., the President, in the Chair. 



There were also present His Royal Highness the Duke of 

 Cambridge, E.G., the Earl of Halsbury (Lord Chancellor), the Earl 

 of Rosse, K.P., Lord Lister (President of the Royal Society), Lord 

 Kelvin, Lord Iveagh, M.P., Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Sir 

 John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., Professor A. Cornu (of Paris), Sir George 

 Stokes, Bart., Henry White, Esq. (Secretary American Embassy), 

 S. P. Langley, Esq. (of Washington), Lord Amherst of Hackney, 

 Lord Blythswood, Professor Oscar Liebreich (the delegate from the 

 German Chemical Society), George W. Barnard, Esq. (Master of the 

 Merchant Taylors' Company), The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of 

 Bristol, Rear-Admiral A. K. Wilson, Sir James Crichton-Browne, 

 Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart., Lord Rayleigh, Professor Devvar, and 

 about two hundred other Gentlemen. 



The gallery behind the Chairman's seat was occupied by ladies 

 throughout the evening. 



The Duke of Northumberland (the President of the Royal 

 Institution), in proposing " The Health of Her Majesty the Queen, 

 Empress of India," remarked that it appealed in a peculiar manner to 

 her Majesty's subjects at the present moment, because we had just 

 had the satisfaction of celebrating her eightieth year, and congratu- 

 lating her upon the health and strength which Providence had 



