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nobis contigerit quod vestro exemplo instincti doctos viros et naturae 

 investigatores singulos ac solos laborare non patimur, sed in sociorum convivia, 

 in rationis commercia attrahere conamur. Sit de nobis quoque dictum, ut a 

 Vergilio olim cum Roma Mantuam comparante, 



sic canibus catuli similes, sic matribus haedi, 



dummodo quis hoc pro certo habeat nos haedos, quanquam iam et ipsi per 

 centum et triginta annorum cursum saltavimus, victorias ac triumphos vestros, 

 velut parentis, summo semper gaudio revereri, feriasque vestras hoc tempore 

 laetissime celebrare. Et in tanto hoc populo, cuius necessitates in dies acrius 

 Scientiae exauctae opem ante omnia implorant, diu vobis excitare ac ducere 

 liceat magnum istum exercitum quaerentium veritatem. Horum ergo votorum 

 nuntium, Praesidem nostrum dilectum, artis botanicae acerrimum Professorem, 

 FREDERICUM ERNESTUM WEISS, a vobis benigne vocati delegavimus qui vobis 

 ipse laetantibus laetitiam nostram repraesentet. 



F. E. WEISS, Praeses. 

 R. L. TAYLOR 

 GEORGE 



Datum Mancunii, ex aedibus Daltonianis, Kal. lul. MDCCCCXII. 



ASHMOLEAN NATURAL HlSTORY SOCIETY OF OXFORDSHIRE 



THE ASHMOLEAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF OXFORDSHIRE sends heartiest 

 congratulations to the Royal Society on the celebration of the 250th 

 Anniversary of its foundation. It begs to express its profound admiration 

 for the great part the Royal Society has played in the extensive development 

 of Natural Knowledge, and in the enormous advancement of the beneficial and 

 industrial Arts, during those 250 years, and thanks the Royal Society for 

 the stimulus and encouragement it has always afforded to other Societies, 

 throughout the Empire, by its splendid example in the field of research. For 

 these reasons the Ashmolean Natural History Society of Oxfordshire, thus 

 named in memory of Elias Ashmole, one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal 

 Society, desires herewith to offer its humble homage and greeting. 



ARTHUR A. RAMBAUT, President and Delegate. 



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

 PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY offer to the 

 Royal Society their most hearty congratulations on the attainment of the two 

 hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of its foundation and have nominated to 



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