APPENDIX II 

 MY JUBILEE 



To give all the Addresses and my replies thereto would 

 occupy too much space ; I may, however, be allowed to refer 

 to those of special interest. The first item on the programme 

 was the renewal of the Diploma of Doctor of Philosophy, 

 granted, after the lapse of half a century, by the University of 

 Heidelberg. My official reply to the pro-Rector was as 

 follows : 



To His Serene Highness the Grand-Duke of Baden, Rector of the Uni- 

 versity of Heidelberg, the Professor Czerny, Pro- Rector, to the Senior 

 Dean, and the other Professors of the Philosophical Faculty of the 

 University : 



With grateful heart and with ever-abiding memories of the happy 

 years spent within your hospitable walls in conjunction with that greatest 

 of Chemists and most noble of men, your Bunsen, I tender to you and to 

 the whole of your University my sincere thanks for the honour you have 

 done me by your renewal of my Diploma of Doctor Philosophise 

 Naturalis, after the lapse of half a century. Floreat in JEtemum 

 Universitas Ruperto-Carola. 



Naturally, the next after Heidelberg was the welcoming 

 Address from the Council and Senate of Owens College, in 

 which they referred in kind terms to the work which I had 

 done, both for Owens College and Victoria University of 

 Manchester, in the thirty years during which I was connected 

 with them. To this I replied : 



I thank you, my friends, for the warm welcome which you, through the 

 Vice-Chancellor, have given to me and my Jubilee. Thirty happy, and I 

 hope useful, years were passed by me in your midst. I have seen Owens 

 College rise from insignificant beginnings to the proud position of a 

 stately national University. To have had a hand in the production of 

 this unique transformation scene I look upon as one of the chief privileges 

 of my life, and if the work was laborious, it was a labour of love. 



I tender you all my best and most cordial wishes for the continued 

 success of our great Institution of which we have good reason to be 

 proud. 



Vivat Universitas Mancuniensis. 



