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have been achieved, not by resistance to Nature, but by an ever increasing 

 knowledge of and obedience to her laws. It is a further subject for 

 congratulation that the true method by which these results have been 

 achieved, the method of experiment and test, which was from the first laid 

 down by your Society, was truly laid, and has since been universally acknow- 

 ledged. We acknowledge also the large share which, on a survey of your 

 successes, must be attributed to the principle represented by the words which 

 you have adopted as your motto and have so greatly fortified in action, the 

 principle of the independence of the human intellect. We acknowledge it with 

 the more gratitude, since in supporting that principle you have conferred 

 benefits on mankind not limited to the particular subjects which you have 

 made more especially your own. We know, from the account which has been 

 preserved, the ideas which actuated the founders of your Society, and it is very 

 fitting that we of the present day, who can judge by the event the value of 

 those ideas, should join with you in celebrating, and render our respectful 

 homage to, the memory of those gifted men who formulated the principles and 

 laid down the lines of your work, though they could only prophetically foresee 

 the grandeur of the results to follow. May the Royal Society long continue 

 its glorious career to the increase of true knowledge, the honour of our nation, 

 and the welfare and happiness of the whole human race. 



HORACE CULLEN, Master. 

 July, 



MlXERALOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON 



SOCIETAS MINERALOGICA SociETATi REGALI S. P. D. Gratulamur Societati 

 vestrae quod annos ducentos et quinquaginta ab origine vestra feliciter 

 peractos mox estis celebraturi. Simul maximas gratias agimus quod scientias 

 illas quae ad terrae structuram mineralem pertinent auxilio vestro et hortatione 

 semper fovistis. 



W. J. LEWIS, Praeses. 



W.P. BE ALE, Thesaurensis. 



GEORGE T. PRIOR, Secretariats. 



Datum Londini, die XVIII mensis Itoiii, MCMA'II. 



PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY, LONDON* 



SOCIETATIS PHARMACEUTICAE MAGNAE BRITANNIAE PRAESES, CONCILIUM, 

 SODAI.ES SOCIETATI REGALI Salutem. Gratulamur animo quam amicissimo 

 Societati vestrae illustrissimae doctissimaeque natalem ducentesimum quinqua- 

 gesimum celebranti, speramusque fore ut ita in posteros annos floreat ut cumu- 



