CELEBRATION ADDRESSES 95 



ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS 



SOCIETATI REGALI COLLEGIUM REGALE MEDICORUM LONDINENSE S. P. D. Ad 

 sollennia vestra, viri doctissimi, per literas vestras gratissimas nuper vocati, 

 misimus nos Praesidem nostrum, THOMAM BARLOW, Baronettum, Ordinis 

 Regii Victoriae Equitem, nostra inter comitia simul ac vestra socium honora- 

 tissimum, qui studia nostra vobis exprimat, et de natalibus gratuletur. 

 Maximi certe debentur .Societati Regali honores, quae per ducentos et 

 quinquaginta annos lampada tradiderit Scientiae, quae tot sibi consociaverit 

 magistros, a Neutono illo usque ad Carolum Daruinum, necnon multos alios in 

 re physica, geologica, chemica, physiologica doctissimos, ne dicam Medicos 

 quosdam illustrissimos, qui inter nostram vestramque Societatem quasi arcta 

 vincula fuerunt, atque amicitiae signa mutuae et perpetuae. At quanta ante 

 oculos vestros patent regna ! nihil enim in natura est pro cognitione vestra 

 nimis vastum, nihil nimis minutum aut arcanum ; quaeritis qua lege labantur 

 sidera, quibus ignibus ardeant soles, quaenam sit terrarum et rupium aedificatio, 

 quaenam molecularum et atomorum intima natura, quomodo et quibus ex 

 primordiis propagentur florum animalium hominumque genera. Talia igitur 

 contemplantes, et tanto Scientiae amore raptos, non turbat vos popularis aura, 

 non odium theologicum, non furor politicus ; sufficit enim ipsam Naturam 

 prospicere, ac divino eius impleri afflatu ; ita ut de vobis illud videatur 

 cecinisse Vergilius, 



felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. 

 Valete ! 



THOMAS BARLOW, Praeses. 

 J. A. ORMEROD, Registrarlus. 



Datum Londini, Kalendis luliis, MCMXII. 



ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 



WE, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council of the ROYAL COLLEGE OF 

 SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, have the honour to convey to the President, Council, 

 and Fellows of the Royal Society our cordial congratulations on the occasion 

 of the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of its foundation. It is gratifying 

 to us to remember that, among the many illustrious men who have brought 

 honour to the Society, not the least famous have been members of the medical 

 profession, and that in three instances the Presidential Chair has been filled 

 by a Fellow of our College. It is therefore with special interest and pleasure 

 that we join in doing honour to the Society, and offer to its President and 

 Fellows our best wishes for the success of their commemoration. In witness 

 whereof we have caused the Common Seal of the College to be hereunto affixed 



this 13th day of June, 1912. T^T/-.^ A XT T /-.rvrvn^ n -j 



RICKMAN J. GODLEE, President. 



