250TH ANNIVERSARY 23 



telescope, Newton's original account of his Reflecting Telescope, 

 dated January 1672, and some instruments that belonged re- 

 spectively to Christopher Wren, Joseph Priestley, Captain James 

 Cook, and Charles Darwin. 



THURSDAY, JULY 18TH. 



The arrangements for the morning were similar to those of the 

 morning of the previous day. In the afternoon, the President, 

 Council, and Delegates went by railway to Windsor, where, by 

 the King's command, they were first conducted to St. George's 

 Chapel and thence through the State apartments of the Castle, 

 where the visitors had an opportunity of seeing the treasures of 

 art collected by successive sovereigns of England. The whole 

 company was marshalled on the terrace overlooking the gardens, 

 the same geographical arrangement of the Delegates being 

 maintained as at the presentation of addresses in Burlington 

 House. The King and Queen then came down to the terrace, 

 and the President, Treasurer, and Secretaries of the Royal Society 

 were presented to their Majesties by the Lord Chamberlain. 

 The Delegates were then presented in succession to their Majesties 

 by the President. After the ceremony of presentation, the 

 company joined the large Garden Party which their Majesties had 

 invited to Windsor on the occasion, and the King and Queen, 

 conversing with their guests on the way, passed to the Royal Tent. 



As the whole Celebration was to end on the evening of this 

 day arrangements were made for a series of farewell dinners, 

 smaller and less formal than the large banquet in the Guildhall, 

 when the hospitality could be mingled with more general 

 friendly intercourse. A number of the Fellows gave parties, at 

 which Delegates and the ladies accompanying them could see 

 a little of English homes. The other Delegates were entertained 

 by the Royal Society Club, a dining club connected with the 

 Society for some two hundred years. At these various parties much 

 pleasant conversation took place, the friendships which had been 

 begun on the previous days were further strengthened, and the 

 Fellows of the Royal Society bade their guests farewell with the 

 assurance that the Celebration had passed off as successfully as 

 could have been desired. 



