24 THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



The various functions arranged by the Royal Society were now 

 completed, but reference should be made to the sympathetic 

 action of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in organizing 

 an additional day and inviting a considerable number of Foreign 

 and Colonial Delegates, together with a few Fellows of the Society, 

 to partake of the hospitality of these two ancient seats of learning. 

 On the morning of Friday, the 19th, two parties, about equal in 

 number, left London for Oxford and Cambridge respectively. At 

 Oxford the guests took luncheon at All Souls College, with the 

 Chancellor of the University, Lord Curzon, and the Warden and 

 Fellows as hosts. A garden-party in the afternoon at Wadham 

 was full of interest in connexion with the association of this 

 College with the early history of the Royal Society. The 

 Warden gave the visitors a brief address in the Lodge wherein 

 the meetings of the early founders of the Society were held when, 

 owing to the political troubles of the middle of the seventeenth 

 century, they could no longer be held in London. At Cambridge 

 similar hospitality was shown to the guests by the Master and 

 Fellows of St. John's College. 



At both Universities Honorary Degrees were conferred on 

 a few of the more distinguished men who had attended the 

 Celebration of the Royal Society. As a permanent and interesting 

 record of the visits of this day, the Latin eloges pronounced by 

 the Public Orator of each University are here given. Those at 

 Oxford (by Mr. A. D. Godley) were as follow : 



OXFORD 



JONS OSCAR BACKLUND, Central Observatory, Poulkovo. 



Hodie eos hospitio excipimus qui Regiam illam Societatem ducentos et 

 quinquaginta annos peractos celebrantem votis et gratulationibus salutatum 

 venerunt : quos igitur fautrix et altrix naturalis scientiae Universitas Oxo- 

 niensis oblata facultate quoad potest titulis exoptat ornare. Ex his primus 

 ad vos accedit qui antiquissimam omnium scientiam profitetur. Hie origine 

 Suecanus postea in Russiam invitatus migravit : ibi et aliarum turrium astris 

 observandis exstructarum et praecipue eius quae est apud Pulkowenses curam 

 suscepit. Quod si quid de studiis eius loqui audere possum, haec nomine certe 

 eos referre videntur qui longe aliam illi quidem scientiam e caeli motibus olim 

 deduxerunt : est enim mathematicus et mathematicas praesertim rationes 



