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of British scientific research and the constant and trusted adviser and almoner 

 of the Crown and the Government of the country in respect of all matters 

 relating to the progress of Science. Our Institute has less than seventy years 1 

 record to look back upon, for the Ethnological Society of London, which forms 

 part of it, was founded in 1843, and the Anthropological Society of London, 

 which forms the other part of it, in 1863. The two Societies were combined in 

 1871, and it is to one who conferred lustre on your Society, our then President, 

 Thomas Henry Huxley, that that happy combination was due. We have 

 owed much to other great men who, belonging to your body, have devoted 

 themselves especially to the work of Anthropological Science, and have 

 presided over our Institute. Among these are George Busk, Francis Galton, 

 John Evans, John Beddoe, Augustus Franks, Augustus Pitt-Rivers, Daniel 

 Cunningham, and others who are departed, as well as Lord Avebury, Alexan- 

 der Macalister, Edward Burnet Tylor, and other distinguished members of 

 your body who happily remain with us. It is to one of the ornaments of your 

 Society Charles Darwin that the science of Anthropology owes its most 

 powerful inspiration. The Origin of Species and the Descent of Man 

 gave a new impulse and direction to the students of our science and formed 

 for them a fresh starting-point for laborious and fruitful investigation. We 

 have for many years felt the assured conviction that your body, as the 

 acknowledged leaders of scientific thought, had the most complete sympathy 

 with our work ; that you viewed the growing development of it with cordial 

 satisfaction ; and that you had thus contributed much towards its successful 

 prosecution. It is accordingly with a special feeling of gratification that we 

 have deputed our President, Dr. A. P. MAUDSLA,Y, to be our representative at 

 the Celebration of your auspicious Anniversary and to present to you in our 

 name this our Address of Congratulation. 



ALFRED P. MAUDSLAY. 



Dated the llth day of June, 1912. 



ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, LONDON 



WE, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Council of the ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL 

 SOCIETY, desire to offer our most hearty congratulations to the Royal Society on 

 the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of its foundation. We would testify 

 to the unceasing efforts of the Royal Society to promote the advancement of 

 Natural Knowledge, which have eminently contributed to the present remark- 

 able development of the sciences and their application to technical and 

 industrial arts. Particularly do we desire to acknowledge the beneficial 

 influence of the Royal Society on the study of Astronomy evidenced by the 

 large number of important memoirs on Astronomical Science found in its 

 publications. We note with pride the long roll of distinguished Astronomers 



