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GEORGIUM HARE PHILIPSON, Vice-Cancellarium nostrum, medicum inlustrem 

 inter equites adscitum, qui nostram erga vos amicitiam praesens testetur. 

 Sunt sane multa nobis vobiscum necessitudinis vincula, quorum nunc liceat 

 si non plura at unum vel potius unicum illud referre, quod viget apud nos, et 

 diu vigeat, Gulielmus Green well, socius vester, noster alumnus, archaeologorum 

 Nestor indefessus, qui pariter iam omnes, nisi fallimur, et vestrbs socios et 

 nostros alumnos aetate superavit. Proinde, doctorum doctissimi, scitote 

 nos vestris in gaudiis gaudere et impense simul precari ut nominis vestri 

 vetus amplitudo novis atque amplioribus etiam per saecula praemiis augeatur. 



G. W. KITCHIN, D.D., Cancettarius et Decanus. 

 Datum Dunelmi, Kal. lul, A.S. MDCCCCXII. 



UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS 



To THE PRESIDENT, COUNCIL, AND FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS begs respectfully to congratulate you on the Anniversary 

 which you are about to celebrate. For two hundred and fifty years your 

 Society has filled a unique place in our national life. No institution has 

 ever been animated by a greater love of truth or by a deeper reverence for 

 unfettered freedom of thought. The experimental methods followed by the 

 Royal Society have proved themselves to be true methods of advance ; and 

 to-day mankind is its debtor for the enlightenment and the welfare which 

 attend vast additions to natural knowledge. The scientific achievements of 

 your Society are universally acknowledged both at home and abroad. A point 

 less generally observed is its indirect influence in all parts of the British 

 realms. Happily inclusion in the Royal Society does not withdraw and 

 isolate men who have found a career among the growing populations of our 

 time. No thoughtful dweller in our own city can help feeling that Leeds 

 would have lost greatly had Joseph Priestley never lived and worked here. 

 In large industrial centres men like Priestley are the best of educators. 

 They are true 'merchants of light 1 , if we may borrow a phrase from that 

 New Atlantis which foreshadows so closely, in some important respects, the 

 purposes of your own foundation. And since Priestley's day there have never 

 been wanting among the citizens of Leeds other members of your body who 

 have not merely advanced natural science by special research but have spared 

 no effort to encourage learning in all its many branches. Not the least 

 active among the founders of our University have been Fellows of the Royal 

 Society who have not allowed the claims of particular investigations to blind 

 them to the wide range and essential unity of human knowledge. 



ARTHUR G. LUPTON, Vice-Chancellor. 



MICHAEL E. SADLER, Pro-Chancellor. 

 July, 1912. 



