96 THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, LONDON 



SOCIETATI REGALI inter omnes Britanniae Societates antiquissimae et 

 praeclarissimae annum a Societate condita Ducentesimum Quinquagesininm 

 Celebranti SOCIETAS ANTIQUARIORUM LONDINENSIS S. P. D. Societati Regali, 

 inter ipsa scientiarum quae vocantur naturalium incunabula nascenti, mandato 

 Regis Caroli Secundi sancitum est ut aut novatn excuderet philosophiam aut 

 veterem expoliret : quod propositum quanto cum successu sit consecuta, iam 

 dudum non patriae modo sed orbi terrarum universe innotuit. Atqui, licet 

 superfluum sit ut seriem virorum qui et Societatem et nomen Britannicum 

 illustraverunt recenseamus, eorum saltern qui in utramque sodalitatem, et 

 restrain et nostram, adsciti fuerint non omittenda est memoria : quorum 

 e numero Martinus Foulkes uno eodemque tempore utrique Societati praefuit, 

 Augustus Franks, Johannes Evans, apud vos socii apud nos Praesides illustris- 

 simi exstiterunt. Neque illud tacendum duximus nostram scilicet Societatem, 

 quamvis LV annis natu minorem, vestrae et proximum obtinere locum, et 

 firmissimo semperque ut speramus duraturo amicitiae foedere esse devinctam : 

 quocirca vobis plenum studiorum fructum, felicitatem perpetuam, honoris, si 

 id fieri potest, incrementum, iteruni atque iterum libentissimis animis exopta- 

 mus. Delegavimus hodie Praesidem nostrum, CABOLUM HERCULEM READ, 

 militem eundemque Legum Doctorem qui congratulationes nostras vobis unus 

 pro omnibus afferat. 



Dabamus Londlni ex acdibus nostris, Kal. lul. anno Domini MDCCCCXII. 



C. H. READ, Praeses. 



BRITISH ACADEMY, LONDON 



THE PRESIDENT, COUNCIL, AND FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 

 We, the President, late Presidents, Council, and Fellows of the BIHTI.SH 

 ACADEMY, desire to offer to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal 

 Society our cordial congratulations on the completion of the two hundred and 

 fiftieth year of its illustrious career. On this memorable occasion we approach 

 you with feelings of special attachment and confidence, inasmuch as our 

 Academy was, at a still recent date, founded with the co-operation and good- 

 will of your august Society, and we take pride in the thought that we may 

 almost regard our own Body as the offshoot of an historic Institution which 

 has flourished through so long a period of the national life. The Royal 

 Society had its beginnings in troublous times, when the proud legend 

 inscribed on the Society's seal found in very deed a wide application ; but at 

 no time has it been other than true to the high and arduous ends to which its 

 labours have from the first been devoted, or ceased from the pursuit and 



