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send a delegate. The illuminated Invitation was in Latin and in 

 the accompanying form, with the requisite verbal variations in the 

 last paragraph when addressed to individual persons. 



It was arranged that the various functions should extend from the 

 evening of Monday, July 15th, to the evening of Thursday, 18th. 

 The following Diary was printed and placed in the hands of the 

 Fellows and visitors before the proceedings began : 



MONDAY, JULY 15ra. 



Evening Reception of the Delegates in the Rooms of the Royal Society, 

 Burlington House, Piccadilly, 8.30 to 11 p.m. The Enquiry Office will 

 be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. this day, and on application there, 

 Delegates and Fellows will obtain all the tickets required for the various 

 functions of the Celebration. 



TUESDAY, JULY 16xH. 



Commemorative Service in Westminster Abbey ; 12 noon. 



Formal Reception of the Delegates and Presentation of Addresses in the 



Great Library of the Royal Society, 2.30 p.m. 

 Banquet in the Guildhall of the City of London, 6.30 for 7 p.m. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH. 



Visits in the morning to Places of Interest in and near London. 



Garden Party given by Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland, at Syon 



House, on the Thames (4 to 7 o'clock). 

 Conversazione at the Royal Society, 9 o'clock. 



THURSDAY, JULY ISra. 



Visits in the morning to Places of Interest in and near London. 



Garden Party at Windsor given by Their Majesties the King and Queen. 



In the evening Dinner Parties ; particulars of which will await Delegates and 



Fellows at Burlington House from the morning of Monday, July 15th, 



onward. 



The formal Celebration was held in the Rooms of the Royal 

 Society in Burlington House. For the convenience of those 

 attending it, an Enquiry Office and Post Office were fitted up 

 in the adjoining meeting-room of the Geological Society, which 

 that Society had kindly lent for the occasion, and where all the 



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