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Continent and in America, I beg leave to present to you the gentle- 

 men who have been selected for that distinction and who have 

 honoured us with their presence here to-day. 



All of them have done worthy and memorable work in the field of 

 science, all of them are of world-wide reputation, and it is unneces- 

 sary therefore in an audience like this, and it might be tedious and 

 embarrassing to them that I should recount the offices, achievements, 

 publications and honours of each, and so I shall only present them 

 nominally in asking your Royal Highness to admit them to the 

 Honorary Membership. 



The diplomas which have been prepared for them they will carry 

 back with them to almost every country in Europe and to the United 

 States of America — whence came the founder of the Royal Institution 

 to these shores just one hundred and twenty-three years ago — and we 

 feel sure that these diplomas will have an enhanced interest and value 

 for all of them because they are bestowed by the hand of your Eoyal 

 Highness. 



Our conference here this afternoon accentuates the universal 

 brotherhood of science, and so may perhaps do something to promote 

 the concord of the nations. 



I have the honour to present the following gentlemen : — Dr. Emile 

 Ador (Geneva), Professor Joseph S. Ames (Baltimore), Professor 

 Svante Arrhenius (Stockholm), Professor George F. Barker (Phila- 

 delphia), Professor Carl Barus (Providence, U.S A.), Professor Henri 

 Becquerel (Paris), Dr. L. Bleekrode (The Hague), Professor Giacomo 

 Luigi Ciamician (Bologna), Professor Nicolas Egorof (St. Petersburg), 

 Professor Antoine Paul Nicolas Franchimont (Leiden), Professor 

 Heinrich Gustav Kayser (Bonn), Professor Wilhelm Korner (Milan), 

 Mr. Samuel Pierpoint Langley (Washington), Professor Oscar Lie- 

 breich (Berlin), Professor Gustave Leonard Van der Mensbrugge 

 (Ghent), Professor Albert A. Micholson (Chicago), Professor Henri 

 Moissan (Paris), Professor Raffaelo Nasini (Padua), Professor 

 Walther Nernst (Gottingen), and Mr. Ernest Solvay (Brussels). The 

 diploma of honorary membership will be forwarded to the following, 

 who are unable to be present :— Professor Armand Emile Gautier 

 (Paris), Professor Wilhelm Ostwald (Leipzig), Professor Robert H. 

 Thurston (Ithaca), Professor Emilio Villari (Naples), Professor Jules 

 Louis Violle (Paris), and Dr. William L. Wilson (Washington). 



As it was thought essential that the Centenary of the Royal 

 Institution should be celebrated in this place, its old, its first, and 

 only home, it was found impossible from want of room to invite 

 delegates from universities, colleges, societies and academies, as the 

 managers would otherwise have wished to do ; but notwithstanding 

 that no invitations have been issued, two foreign learned societies 

 have spontaneously sent addresses of congratulation. The German 

 Chemical Society, and the German Society of Chemical Industry, 

 felicitate the Royal Institution on the completion of one hundred 

 years of its existence, generously acknowledge the splendid work it 



