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IlOYAL GlOGHA! HI< AL So< IBT1 



1, Savile How, Burlington Gardens. Ixmdon, W '.. 1 ■'« -binary 14 1912. 



To the President, The Aeadcim of Natural Srimccs of Phils Iphia. 

 Sir: 



On my own behalf as President, and on behalf of the Council <>f the Royal 



Geographical So iety, I beg to offer you our wannest congratulations on th< 



celebration of the Centenary of the foundation of The Academy of Natural 



Sciences of Philadelphia. 



It reflects the hi best credit on the United States of America that so earh 

 in its career as an independent State, an institution should have l>< en estahli he<l 

 for the pursuit of natural knowledge, and as a centre of culture and cnlight* n- 

 ment, in the midst of a population which was naturally strenuous in the de\ lop- 

 ment of the material resources of a great country The Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia soon achieved and has throughout maintained position 



as one of the great scientific societies of the world, and its publication on tain 

 many contributions of original value in the various departments of s ntific 

 investigation, as well as of practical importance to humanity at large and to 

 America in particular. 



Our earnest wish is that the Academy may long continue to carry out with 

 as much success as in the past, its beneficent services to science and to its country. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Yours most sincerely, 



O'RZON OF K'KDM >n, 



President, Royal Geographical Society. 



