II. TELEGRAMS AND LETTERS 



I FROM FOREIGN MEMBERS AND OTHER MEN OF 

 SCIENCE ABROAD 



PROFESSOR EMIL FISCHER, University of Berlin, Foreign Member of the Royal 

 Society. Zum Jubelfeste beehre ich mich der Royal Society herzlichen 

 Gltickwunsch darzubringen. EMIL FISCHER. 



PROFESSOR HENDRIK ANTOON LORENTZ, For. Memb. R.S., and PROFESSOR VAN- 

 DESANDE BAKHUYSEN, both of the University of Leyden. Hearty wishes for 

 lasting prosperity and glorious future. VANDESANDE BAKHUYZEN, LORENTZ. 



PROFESSOR CLEMENT A. TIMIRIAZEFF, University of Moscow, For. Memb. R.S. 

 Accept warmest congratulations to the fifth jubilee of the Society's glorious 

 career. TIMIRIAZEFF. 



PROFESSOR C. WILHELM RONTGEN, University of Munich. Leider gestattet 

 meine Gesundheit nicht nach London zu reisen ; ich bitte der Royal Society 

 meinen Dank und die herzlichsten Gliickwiinsche zu uberbringen. WILHELM 

 RONTGEN. 



PROFESSOR PHILIPPE A. GUYE, University of Geneva. Empeche a mon vif 

 regret de prendre part au brillant anniversaire Royal Society, je prie son 

 President et ses membres d'agreer mes felicitations les plus sinceres et mes 

 vceux les plus cordiaux. Professeur PHILIPPE GUYE. 



II. FROM UNIVERSITIES, ACADEMIES, &c. 



UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ. Universitas literarum Graecensis gratulatur ex animo. 

 HAUKE, Rector. 



BOHEMIAN KARL-FERDINAND UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE. SIR, lam very sorry 

 to be prevented by official duties from personally taking part in the Celebration 

 of the 250th Anniversary of the Royal Society. 



I beg to heartily congratulate you and the Royal Society in the name of 

 the Bohemian University of Prague, adding my own sincere wishes for 

 the continued prosperity of the Royal Society, of which you are the President. 

 I remain, Sir, very truly yours, F. VEJDOVSKY. 



UNIVERSITY OF SOPHIA. University of Sophia congratulates the Society at 

 its jubilee and wishes it a still more glorious future in intensive and 

 scientific work. Rector JURINITCH. 



THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION, BERLIN. Der Royal Society, die 

 wahrend eines Vierteljahrtausends durch ihre beruhmten Mitglieder und 



