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higher learning and research worthy of the Metropolis of the Empire. 

 That it will succeed in its great task I have no manner of doubt, and one 

 good reason for this belief is that we have for our first Principal, Sir 

 Arthur Riicker. 



The next Address comes from a still newer University, the 

 seat of an unparalleled revival of learning and scientific educa- 

 tion in that most marvellous of countries, Japan. 



Translation of the Address of Congratulation from the Imperial Univer- 

 sity of Tokyo to SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE. 

 SIR, 



The Imperial University of Tokyo is gratified to learn that your friends 

 and former pupils have determined to celebrate the completion of fifty 

 years of your graduation as a Doctor of Philosophy of the University of 

 Heidelberg. 



Your long and untiring devotion to the cause of Science and Education 

 has won for you the highest respect and profoundest admiration of all, and 

 we desire to associate ourselves with the celebration, and to offer you on 

 our behalf our heartiest congratulations on so auspicious an occasion, as 

 well as to express our earnest hope that you may enjoy health and strength 

 for many years to come. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



KUIJIRO YAMAGAWA, 



President, 



In my reply I said : 



You will believe me when I say that none of the many Addresses 

 from Universities and Scientific Societies which I have received have 

 been more welcome to me than that which your University has sent. 



Especially at the present time I consider it an honour that your 

 University has remembered me, for your nation is occupied with other 

 thoughts and deeds. 



We in England look with admiration, not unmixed with surprise, on the 

 patriotism and noble devotion to duty which your nation is exhibiting in 

 the face of the world, and we cannot fail to see in all this a dependence on 

 scientific training and an application of scientific method to national 

 wants which may well serve as an example to European nations. 



I beg that you will present to the University of Tokyo, over which you 

 preside, my warmest thanks for the honour which it has done me. 



Among the scientific Societies which honoured me comes 

 first of all that, from the Mother of them all, signed by the 

 President, Sir William Huggins : 



Burlington House, 

 London, 



April 1 8th, 1904. 

 DEAR SIR HENRY ROSCOE, 



The approaching celebration of the Jubilee of your Doctorate gives me 

 the opportunity to send you the cordial congratulations of the Royal 

 Society, and to express the high esteem in which they hold the contribu- 

 tions to scientific progress and to the public well-being which have been 



