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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENARY MEETING. 



The Canadian Institute. 



198 College St., Toronto, March 16, 1912. 



Corresponding Secretary, The Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia. 



Dear Sir: 



I beg to thank you for your kind invitation to the Canadian Institute to 



greatly 



be represented at the Centenary Anniversary of the Academy, and 

 regret that it is impossible for me or any of my associates to be present with you. 

 You have had a long and successful career, and the President and Members 

 of the Canadian Institute extend you most hearty greetings, with the hope that 

 your future achievements may not only equal, but may far outdo, your accom- 



plishments in the past 



Yours sincerely 



. Tyrrell, 

 President, Canadian Institute 



Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



The Trustees and the Investigators of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 extend greetings and congratulations to The Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia on the occasion of the celebration of its One hundredth Anniversary. 



The century of progress achieved by the Academy in the cultivation of the 





Natural Sciences 



mmands admiration for the devotion of 



our 



gives confidence in the fruitfulness of the labors of 

 warrants sanguine expectations for continued advances by 



predecessors 



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temporaries 



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and 



Robert S. Woodward 



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On a beautifully engrossed and illuminated sheet 



President 



