20 CENTENKIAL CELEBRATION OF THE ACADEMY. 



to be awarded by the Lincei for the best works on scientific subjects. For its renewed vitality and 

 enlightened activity the Academy is particularly indebted to its President, Quintino Sella, whose 

 high qualifications as a statesman are only equalled by his scientific attainments. 



The sentiments which I have already expressed on behalf of the Academy which I have the 

 honor to represent at this festival, I ask your permission now to repeat, in reading to you the mes- 

 sage of the Lincei, -written neither in English nor in Italian, but in Latin, the universal language of 

 scientific men. 



Q. B. r. S. 



ACADEMIAE BOSTONIANAE ARTIVM ET SCIENTIARVM 



V I L K A L. J V N. M D C C C L X X X 



SOLLEMNIA SAECULARIA CELEBRANTI 



PIE GRATVLATVR OilXlA EAYSTA RITE PRECATVR 



SODALESQVE SVOS 



JACOBVM DANA VINCENTIVM BOTTA 



VOTORVM INTER PRETES DESIGNAT RENVNTIAT 



REGIA LYNCEORVM ACADEMIA 



D A T V M R M A E EX A E D. C A P I T L I N I S N N. SI A R T. 



ANNO A SOCIETATE INSTITVTA CCLXXVII 



QriNTixus Sella 



LTXCEORVM PRIKCEPS 



DoMiNiccs CarittiJ 



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Mr. Greenhill, of Emanuel, Cambridge, was called upon to respond for the Cam- 

 bridge (England) Philosophical Society. He said : — 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : — I beg to convey to you the thanks of the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society for the honor which is conferred upon me, and I beg, on my own behalf, to express 

 my thanks for the very hearty welcome I have received during my visit to this country. I was 

 requested, on behalf of the L^niversity, to express regrets that she was not able to send out a pro- 

 fessor ; but, in full term time, it was difficult to spare one. I feel sure that, had Professor Maxwell 

 lived, he would have seized this opportunity to visit this country and see those in whose researches 

 and in whose work he took so much interest. We are proud of the early history of this country, 

 and particularly proud of numbering Mr. Harvard among our graduates. I feel, indeed, that our 

 chief title to fame is to have sent forth into the world the founder of the University in this country, 

 which bids fair, in the number of its students, in the endowment of study, and in the scope of its 

 influence, to rival the parent institution in England. In four years' time, in 1884, -we hope to 

 celebrate the tri-centennial of the founding of Emanuel College, and we shall be pleased to give 

 many of you as warm a welcome there as I have received here. 



