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second to no similar body in the World. The great army of diligent and 

 determined workers who are united by the solemn covenant to extend Man's 

 knowledge of Nature look with reverence and gratitude on the Society which, 

 during two and a half centuries, has kept alive in these Islands the sacred fire 

 of Research, and has included within its Fellowship men whose names and 

 achievements are amongst the most imperishable glories of the human race. 

 We desire to take this opportunity of expressing, however imperfectly, our 

 indebtedness to the Society of Boyle, of Cavendish, of Priestley, of Dalton, 

 and of Davy, and we are proud to remember that these early masters of our 

 Science, by the stimulus which their investigations gave to the growth of 

 Chemical Knowledge, led to the origin of our Society by a natural process of 

 gemmation from your body. It is, therefore, in the capacity of children, and 

 as an act of filial piety, that we desire to offer to you, our parents, dutiful 

 felicitations to-day. We would take this opportunity again of gladly and 

 freely acknowledging before all men that whatever success our own Society 

 may have achieved, whatever may be the dignity to which we have attained, 

 and whatever service to Science and to Mankind we may have been privileged 

 to perform, we largely owe to the inspiration which our founders drew from 

 the magnificent traditions of the Royal Society. This quickening influence 

 has been and, we trust, may long be maintained by a close association with 

 you, by the community of Fellowship which exists between your Society and 

 ours, and by the kindred ideals and aspirations which animate us both. 

 Signed on behalf of the Chemical Society: 



PERCY F. FRANKLAND, President. 

 ALEXANDER SCOTT, Treasurer. 

 ARTHUR W. CROSSLEY } 

 SAMUEL SMILES ) A 



HORACE T. BROWN, Foreign Secretary. 



Sealed in Council this Twentieth Day of June, One Thousand Nine 

 Hundred and Twelve. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON 



SOCIETATI REGIAE SOCIETAS ENTOMOLOGICA LONDINENSIS S. P. D. Benevole 

 a vobis invitati, ut unum aliquem nostrum delegemus, qui natalicia vestra 

 vobiscum celebret, munus hoc vel potius honorem Praesidi nostro, qui nunc 

 est, contulimus, mandavimusque ei ut, epistolae huius testimonio, vobis 

 declaret, nostrum omnium in votis esse ut Societas vestra virorum illustrium 

 sapientiae doctrinaeque Britannicae iam per tot annos decus et tutamen 

 felicitate, gloria, denique rebus omnibus optabilibus, magis magisque semper 



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