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the 16th of July and the two following days ; and the Swedish Academy has 

 thought fit to let itself be represented on this great occasion by its Vice- 

 President. Your venerable Society, which in the course of time has united 

 with itself the greatest scientific names in the history of the world, can with 

 legitimate pride look back upon a magnificent work in the service of science 

 and for the benefit of mankind. The Royal Swedish Academy therefore feels 

 impelled to convey their warmest felicitations, and at the same time to express 

 the conviction that your renowned Society will continue henceforth, as in the 

 past, to carry the standard of science high. 



Stockholm, 20th June, 1912. 



For the Royal Swedish Academy of Science : 



H. G. SODERBAUM, President. 

 HJALMAR THEEL, v. Secretary. 



SWITZERLAND 



UNIVERSITY OF BERNE 



UNIVERSITATIS LITTERARUM BERNENSIS RECTOR ET SENATUS SOCIETATIS REGIAE 

 LONDINIENSIS PRAESIDI CONCILIO SODALIBUS S. D. P. Postquam Societas 

 Regia illustrissima abhinc annos CCL Regis Caroli Secundi regio rescripto 

 constituta inter tot societates academias universitates vetustissimas et illus- 

 trissimas nostram quoque Almam Matrem in partem diei natalis ducentesimi 

 quinquagesimi celebrandi vocavit, libenti gratoque animo collegam nostrum 

 THEOPHILUM STUDER, Medicinae et Philosophiae doctorem, Zoologiae et 

 Anatomiae comparatae professorem publicum ordinarium, allegavimus, qui 

 vobis gratias ageret quam maximas gratulationisque nostrae interpres esset 

 disertissimus. Nostro igitur nomine gratuletur vobis ex animi sententia, 

 quod Societatis vestrae sodales inde a primis annis superstitione vulgari 

 impugnata mentis ingenii oculorum testimonio invocato praeter ceteros illorum 

 temporum viros doctos victoriam triumphumque communis qui dicitur sensus 

 effecerunt atque caligine, quae hominum ingeniis offusa erat, discussa totius 

 generis humani cultui atque saluti fortiter et strenue inserviverunt. Non 

 est quod singula omnium sodalium Societatis vestrae merita enumeremus, 

 qui inde ab Isaac Newton usque ad Caroluin Darwin in sua quisque scient'iae 

 naturalis disciplina principes fuerunt, sed nostro nobis iure liceat his diebus 

 festis civis nostri primarii Albrechti de Haller theatri anatomici Gottingensis 

 praesidis et rectoris, urbis Bernensis luminis et principis, memoriam renovare, 

 qui anno MDCCXLIII a Georgio II Rege Britanniae, cuius turn medicus 

 aulicus erat, ordini vestro adscriptus vita doctrina scriptis illo honore dignis- 

 simum se praebuit. Et quum his proximis annis Hugonem Kronecker, qui 

 nunc instituto physiologico Bernensi, quod Hallerianum vocatur, cum 



