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it was at the instance of the Royal Society of London that Captain James 

 Cook was sent out by the English Admiralty on that voyage which led 

 to such remarkable results in the history of these Southern Lands, results 

 none the less famous in Science from the labours of Sir Joseph Banks, 

 afterwards your President for over forty years. The Royal Society of 

 London has ever been pre-eminent in promoting the highest ideals of 

 knowledge and truth. It has helped in a unique degree to mould the 

 intellectual life not only of Britain but also of Europe and the whole civilized 

 world. While it is impossible to estimate the enormous influence that has 

 radiated from it during the two and a half centuries of its existence, yet this 

 aspect may be specially noted : there can be no national bond stronger than 

 that of common scientific interest, and in carrying out its more definite 

 objects the Royal Society of London has also been eminently assisting to 

 draw closer the political and social bonds of the Empire. The Royal Society 

 of Tasmania names as its delegate and representative to convey this greeting, 

 GREGORY SPROTT, M.D., Member of the Council. Signed on behalf of the 

 Council and Members of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 



HARRY BARRON, President. 



GAM. H. BUTLER, Chairman of the Council. 

 Hobart, May, 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE 



THE PRESIDENT, COUNCIL, AND MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA, 

 a humble but aspiring unit of the body of seekers after knowledge, send hearty 

 greetings to the Royal Society of London, its great mother and prototype, on the 

 completion of the 250th year of its valuable life. The faithful work of many 

 devoted students of nature in the London Society has brought fresh light into 

 countless dark places, and the stimulus given by them, rolling like a wave to the 

 remotest corners of the British Empire, inspires distant workers in the fields 

 of science with energy and hope to new endeavours. The Royal Society of 

 Victoria gratefully acknowledges its debt to these noble men, and ventures to 

 trust that the efforts of its own members to emulate the work of the parent 

 Society may have added some vigour to the growth of the Tree of Knowledge, 

 that by continuing so to do it may be for ever weaving fibres of kinship that 

 shall assimilate its results ever more closely to those of its illustrious progenitor. 

 By order of the Council : 



J. R. HOGG, Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria, Delegate 

 to the Meetings celebrating the 250th anniversary of the 

 foundation of the Royal Society of London. 



July, 1912. 



