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Der Delegierte der Royal Society of Edinburgh, Professor 
Dr. E. A. Schäfer: 
I have been deputed by the Royal Society of Edinburgh to 
couvey to the Memorial Comittee their sense of the honour, which 
has been done to the Society in inviting a representative to parti- 
cipate in the celebration of the Haller Bicentenary. Haller was not 
actually a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; indeed 
the Society was not founded until two years after his death. 
But he was an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Phy- 
sicians of Edinburgh, which has always been closely associated 
with the Royal Society, and many of the Fellows of which are also 
Fellows of the Royal Society. 
The address, which the Royal Society ot Edinburgh has 
requested me to present on their behalf, is signed by the Senior 
Vicepresident, Dr. Robert Munro, by the Secretary, Professor 
Chrystal, and by myself. It is not signed by the President of 
the Society for a reason, which we, in common with the whole 
scientific world, deplore; for the death of Lord Kelvin has 
deprived the Society for the time being of its President, and 
the election of a new President will not be held until next 
month. 
The address of the Royal Society ıs as follows: 
To the Haller Memorial Comittee, Bern. 
The Royal Society of Edinburgh desires through its 
Representative, Edward Albert Schäfer, Professor of Physiology 
in the University of Edinburgh to offer hearty congratulations 
to the City and the University of Bern on the auspicious occa- 
sion of the celebration of the two-hundreth anniversary of the 
birth of the illustrious Albrecht von Haller. 
Although the abiding memorial of Haller’s greatness is 
embodied in his books, which mark an epoch in the sciences of 
Physiology, Botany, and Anatomy, the Royal Society of Edin- 
burgh recognises the fitness of celebrating his Bicentenary by 
the ereetion in the ancient city, where he was born and died, 
and where so important a part of his life’s work was perfor- 
med, of a monument which, although less permanent than his 
writings, may yet serve to indicate to future generations how 
