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Roll of its Fellows bears the names of almost all the illustrious men of two 

 and a half centuries. Many of these we can recall whose names have adorned 

 our own Roll, and we cherish with peculiar satisfaction the recollection that 

 the late Lord Kelvin, during wellnigh sixty years, gave liberally of the 

 offspring of his great genius to forward the interests of both societies. We 

 also recall with pride that on the celebration of the Centenary of our Society 

 in 1902 we were honoured by a cordial greeting from the Royal Society the 

 Mother and the Model of all the learned societies in the English-speaking 

 world. It is our earnest hope that the Royal Society may long continue, 

 with ever fresh ardour and increasing power, to carry on its great work for 

 the advancement of knowledge. 



Signed on behalf of the Members of the Royal Philosophical Society of 

 Glasgow, this second day of July, Nineteen hundred and twelve. 



JOHN GLAISTER, President. 



IRELAND 



UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN (TRINITY COLLEGE) 



SOCIETATI REGIAE UNIVERSITAS DUBLINENSIS S. P. D. Societas vestra, viri 

 doctissimi, quae rerum naturalium investigatoribus, tamquam sol, in regno 

 nostro lucem et calorem praebet, vim beneficam tamdiu et tarn efficaciter 

 exercet ut vix animo concipere possimus olim, neque multis abhinc annis si 

 vitam nationis quis consideret, earn non esse exortam. Sed cum invitatio 

 vestra benignissima venerat ut gaudii vestri participes essemus quo quartam 

 partem millennii naviter et feliciter peractam celebraturi estis, recordati sumus 

 quanta et qualia in brevi spatio animus excelsus, improbi laboris prodigus, 

 veritatis amore instinctus efficere possit. Gratis animis agnoscimus nullam 

 esse rerum naturae partem quae non manum adiutricem Societatis vestrae 

 senserit, sive quis ad extremos mundi fines iverit ut ad Arctoum polum via 

 pateret, sive maris altitudines rimatus sit ut quae ibi latitarent plantae atque 

 animalia cognoscerentur, sive ad coelum oculorum verterit obtutum ut transi- 

 tiones planetarum ibi dispicerentur. Quid ? opere vestro vetus cohors 

 febrium plane fugata est et morborum vis malefica sensim in dies debilitatur : 

 denique in omni genere laboris beneficentia vestra munere suo salutari semper 

 fungitur. Meminisse iuvat inter auctores Societatis vestrae fuisse Hobertum 

 Boyle nostratem, multosque Hiberniae filios in Albo Sociorum vestrorum 

 inscriptos esse, inter quos praecipuo honore nominandus est unus e Praesidibus 

 vestris illustrissimis Gulielmus Thomson, Baro Kelvin, cuius infantia coelum 

 hausit Hibernicum. Laeti igitur libentesque vobis gratulationes et grates 

 agimus, et delegamus virum doctum e coetu nostro eundemque coetui vestro 

 iamdudum adscriptum, paene tarn vobis dilectum quam nobis, IOHANNEM 



