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tropics and specially in India. Several of its leaders, and notably Sir Joseph 

 Banks, President of the Royal Society in the latter part of the eighteenth 

 century, and Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, one of its most eminent members 

 in the nineteenth century, spent much of their life and strength in investigation 

 into tropical conditions, and were almost the first to draw attention to the 

 important light which such inquiry would shed on general scientific questions. 

 The interest in tropical and Indian questions has not flagged since that time, 

 and the Society has again and again placed its experience at the disposal 

 of the Government of India and private bodies in this country. At the 

 present time it acts as the adviser of the Indian Government on matters 

 connected with scientific inquiry in India, and also as an advisory body 

 on the management of the Observatories in India. It has Committees which 

 are studying tropical diseases which are among our worst scourges. And the 

 Royal Society has always shown itself willing to assist with advice and counsel, 

 any public body which appealed to it. The University of Bombay, therefore, 

 joins in congratulating the Royal Society of London on the present occasion, 

 on the noble part it has played in the advancement of knowledge in the past, 

 and wishes for it a future even more glorious, in which it will appear that the 

 present commemoration represents but the beginning of a new era of advance- 

 ment and usefulness. 



Bombay, June 20th, 1912. 



UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 



A CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



1. Those who daily improve the modern world by new discoveries, who 

 spend their lives in search after truths about the material world, who plunging 

 deep into the ocean of science collect gems, may those sober-minded scientists 

 live for ever for the benefit of this world. 



2. Many learned men were born, will be born, and are being born on this 

 earth which was created long ago ; but indeed there are few who are really 

 successful and who by diving into the ocean of science have found out hidden 

 gems. 



3. The Creator, hoary with age, created the universe with the earth and 

 other elements ; but surely he concealed the forces of material objects. 

 A new creator, more powerful than the first, being born discovered the long- 

 hidden forces of material objects. 



4. In the store-house of the universe created by the aged sage Brahma 

 many precious things were kept hidden ; but Newton breaking open the doors 

 of superstition revealed a new method of discovery. 



5. May the bright glory of the Royal Society, founded by him, continue to 

 shine through Royal patronage as long as the Sun and the Moon endure. It 



