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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OP THE ACADEMY. 



to be awarded by the Lincei for the best works on scientific subjects. For its renewed vitality and 

 enlightened activity the Academy is particularly indebted to its President, 



Quintino 



high qualifications as a statesman are only equalled by his scientific attainments. 



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honor to represent at this festival, I ask your permission now to repeat, in reading to you the mes- 

 sage of the Lincei, written neither in English nor in Italian, but in Latin, the universal language of 

 scientific men. 



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ACADEMIAE BOSTONIANAE ART IV M 



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SCIENTIARVM 



VII. KAL. JVN. MDCCCLKXX 



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SOLLEMNIA SAECULARIA CELEBRANTI 

 GRATVLATVR OMNIA FAVSTA HITE PRECATVR 



SODALESQVE SVOS 

 JACOBVM DANA VINCENTIVM BOTTA 

 VOTORVM INTERPRETES DESIGNAT RENVNTIAT 



REGIA LYNCEORVM ACADEMIA 



DATVM ROMAE EX AED. CAPITOLINIS NON. MART. 



ANNO A SOCIETATE INSTITVTA CCLXXVIT 



Quintinus Sella 

 LYNCEORVM PRINCEPS 



Dominicus Caeuttt 

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Mr. Greenhill, of Emanuel, Cambridge, was called upon to respond for the Cain- 

 bridge (England) Philosophical Society. He said: — 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : — I beg to convey to you the thanks of the Cambridge Philo- 

 sophical Society for the honor which is conferred upon me, and I beg, on my own behalf, to express 



my thanks for the very 



I was 



requested, on behalf of the University, to express regrets that she was not able to send out a pro- 

 fessor; but, in full term time, it was difficult to spare one. I feel sure that, had Professor Maxwell 

 lived, he would have seized this opportunity to visit this country and see those in whose researches 



much 



o 



rest. We 

 Harvard 



o 



graduates. I feel, indeed, that our 



chief title to fame is to have sent forth into the world the founder of the University in this country, 

 which bids fair, in the number of its students, in the endowment of study, and in the scope of its 

 influence, to rival the parent institution in England. In four years' time, in 1884, we hope to 

 celebrate the tri-centennial of the founding of Emanuel College, and we 



pleased 



many 



