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auxquelles vous nous avez convies proclament bien haut la vertu efficace (Tune 

 idee qui fut la votre et qui nous est chere. Elles prouvent au monde entier 

 qu'une institution, pour prosperer, pour devenir non seulement grande par la 

 Science, mais aussi puissante par son action et bienfaisante par son rayonne- 

 ment, doit rester en communion intime avec la masse de I'humanite qu'elle 

 eclaire et qu'elle guide dans sa marche vers de lointaines destinees. La Suisse 

 s'associe avec une emotion profonde a des fetes qui sont celles de la Science 

 tout entiere et aux voeux que 1'humanite pensante forme pour la Societe Royale. 



Zurich, Juillet 1912. 



Au nom de PEcole Poly technique Federale : 



Le President du Cornell, Le Recteur, 



Dr. R. GNEHM. THEODOR VETTER. 



JAPAN 



IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKYO 



ADDRESS OF CONGRATULATION FROM THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO TO 

 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. (Translation.) The Imperial University of 

 Tokyo is much honoured in being invited by the Royal Society of London to 

 participate in the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 

 its foundation, and is delighted to join with other Universities and Learned 

 Societies in tendering most hearty congratulations on this memorable occasion. 

 So marvellous has been the progress of Science during the last two and a half 

 centuries, and so illustrious the history of the Royal Society, its foremost 

 promoter, that we cannot, in this short address, refer in adequate terms to 

 any of the individual work of its Fellows, however important that work may 

 be. We can but gratefully recall the fact that the two fundamental laws of 

 Nature the law of universal attraction and the law of evolution were both 

 brought to light by the Fellows of the Royal Society, one of whom held the 

 office of President for the long period of twenty-four years and is, probably, 

 the greatest man of science the world has ever produced. We would rather 

 signalize the profound influence which the Royal Society has had upon man's 

 thought. By steadfastly pursuing the great and noble object with which it 

 was founded, the Royal Society has not only enlarged the bounds of man's 

 knowledge and increased his power and happiness to an extent almost beyond 

 words, but has also, especially during the last half-century, broken down 

 inherited prejudices and traditional opinions, established freer and more 

 direct methods of reasoning, and altogether raised the standard and widened 

 the sphere of man's thought. And, immense as are the material benefits 

 which Science has conferred upon mankind, this greater intellectual freedom 



