PROCEEDINGS FOR 1910 KV 
Darwin Celebration cannot forget your share in the great work they are commemor- 
ating and regret your inability to be present. a 
On the 24th June Honorary Degrees were conferred in the Senate House upon a 
number of distinguished foreign naturalists, and also upon Mr. Francis Darwin, 
described by the Public Orator as “ patris illustris e filiis insignibus unus.” 
In the afternoon the proceedings closed with a Garden Party given at Trinity 
College by Mr. William Erasmus Darwin, Sir George and Lady Darwin, Mr. Francis 
Darwin and Miss Frances Darwin, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Darwin, Mrs. Letchfield and 
Miss Darwin. 
I cannot conclude without expressing my thanks to the University of Cambridge 
and, in particular, to the Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, for much courtesy 
and kindness extended to me as your representative. 
I enclose a copy of the address which I presented on behalf of the Royal Society 
of Canada; a list of those who received Honorary Degrees, and a list of the Delegates 
of the Universities, Colleges, Academies, and Learned Societies. 
I have the honour to be, Sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
W. H. ELLIs. 
ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR Din nie 
To the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge. 
The Royal Society of Canada esteems it a high privilege to be permitted to join 
in the commemoration of the Centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 
fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. 
It was only last year that Canada celebrated her three hundredth birthday as 
marked by the anniversary of the founding of Quebec. During those centuries the 
world has made greater strides in scientific progress than in any previous period of 
like duration. 
As contributors to this progress two men, both sons of the Univerity of Cam- 
bridge, stand head and shoulders above their fellows—Isaac Newton and Charles 
Darwin. 
The first was a great Natural Philosopher, the second a great Philosophical 
Naturalist. Without attempting in any way to compare their intrinsic merits it 
would not perhaps be too much to say that the course of philoscphic inquiry, and the 
intellectual point of view of the civilised world have been more profoundly modified 
by Darwin than even by Newton. 
The Royal Society of Canada has both a scientific and a literary side. It is 
fitting therefore that the Society should place on record its recognition of the literary 
value of Darwin’s Works, and especially of the Origin of Species. The success of that 
work in winning the world’s assent to views already foreshadowed by the great 
French Naturalist Lamarck and by others is due not only to the wealth of patient 
and accurate observation there recorded and to the soundness of the conclusions 
adduced, but also, in no small measure to the excellence of the literary form in which 
those observations and conclusions were given to the world. 
W. H. Ezus, 
Delegate. 
The Council feel that the thanks of the Society are due to Professor 
Ellis for his very satisfactory discharge of his duties as their delegate 
on the interesting and important occasion referred to and for the ex- 
