250TH ANNIVERSARY 21 



BRITISH ISLES continued. 



IRELAND. 

 University of Dublin (Trinity Prof. J. Joly, F.R.S. 



College) 



Royal Irish Academy, Dublin . Prof. J. A. McClelland, F.R.S., Secre- 

 tary. 



Royal Dublin Society . . . Sir Howard Grubb, F.R.S., Vice-Presi- 

 dent. 



Queen's University of Belfast . . Prof. J. Symington, F.R.S. 

 National University of Ireland, Dr. Alexander Anderson. 

 Dublin 



On the evening of July 16th the 250th anniversary of the 

 Royal Society was celebrated by a Dinner held in the ancient 

 Guildhall of London, which was attended by 490 guests. Besides 

 the representative Delegates whose names are given in the fore- 

 going list (p. 13) the company included a large number of the 

 Fellows of the Society, several members of the Government, the 

 Ambassadors of France, Italy, and Japan, the Archbishops of 

 Canterbuiy and York, Cardinal Bourne, the Dean of Westminster, 

 the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, the Lord Chief Justice 

 of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Justice Clerk of 

 Scotland, and representatives of literature, art, and science. After 

 the usual loyal toasts the toast of ' The Royal Society ' was given 

 by Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, and was responded to by the 

 President. The * Universities at Home and Abroad ' were pro- 

 posed by Viscount Morley, Lord President of the Council, and 

 responses were given by Professor Emile Picard, of the Institute 

 of France, Professor Waldeyer, of the University of Berlin, and 

 Professor Winkler, Rector of the University of Amsterdam. The 

 toast of the * Learned Societies in the Old World and the New ' 

 was proposed by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and 

 was replied to by the Marchese E. Paterno di Sessa, of the 

 Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Prince Boris Galitzin, of the 

 Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, and Dr. R. S. Woodward, 

 President of the Carnegie Institution, Washington. The last 

 toast, that of the ' City of London ', was proposed by Dr. Peterson, 

 Principal of McGill University, Montreal ; and, in the unavoidable 

 absence of the Lord Mayor of London, a reply was made by the 

 Right Honourable Sir T. Vezey Strong, the previous Lord Mayor. 



