114 THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



WHEREAS on the eighth day of January of the year 1912 the President, 

 Council, and Fellows of the Royal Society invited the President and Council 

 of the CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY to send a representative to be 

 in London on the fifteenth day of July following at the celebration to be then 

 held of the two hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the foundation of the 

 Royal Society, now the President and Council of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society hereby appoint their President, SIR GEORGE HOWARD DARWIN, Knight 

 Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Plumian Professor of 

 Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, and 

 Fellow of Trinity College in the same University, to be their representative 

 on this occasion and to bear to the President, Council, and Fellows of the 

 Royal Society their felicitations on the long-continued and illustrious services 

 to science of the Society. The Fellows of the Philosophical Society desire to 

 avail themselves of the present opportunity of expressing their pride in the 

 fact that, from the days of Newton, members of the University of Cambridge 

 and in later times of their Society have always borne an important part in the 

 beneficent work of the Royal Society. 



Sealed this sixth day of July, 1912. 



G. H. DARWIN, President. 



E. W. BARNES, Secretary. 



MANCHESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



PRAESIDI CONSILIO SODALIBUS SOCIETATIS REGALIS PRO SCIENTIA NATURALI 

 PROMOVENDA ANNUM CCL SUUM FELICITER CELEBRANTIS S. P. D. SOCIETAS 

 LITTERARIA ET PHiLosopHicA MANcuNiENsis. Etsi vix omnibus persuadebit 

 poeta qui censebat 



in magnis et voluisse sat est, 



tamen cum praeclaros Societatis vestrae annales per tot iam saecula florentis 

 spectemus, nostrae certe lion ingrata laus erit si quis nos voluisse iudicaverit, 

 quantum quidem intra provinciam nostram fieri posset, insistere vestigiis 

 vestris. Nee sine gloria quadam propria nobis, qui usque ad hunc diem 

 Daltonii illius domum habitamus, recordari licet et Daltonium ipsum et 

 loulium quibus quae nomina in rebus physicis magis illustria ? communes 

 socios vestri et nostri corporis fuisse, nee non inter nos, ut inter familiares suos, 

 aliquanto prius reperta sua quemque esse confesses. Nonne enim, ut cecinit 

 Salomo, 'ceu ferrum ferro, sic ab amico exacuitur amici facies'? Nos certe si 

 quid unquam boni in medium conferre vel poterimus vel potuimus, inde id 



