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for modern scientific teaching and research — have been given to 
yon with a fulness enjoyed by few or none of the sister uni- 
versity colleges of Great Britain ; and the completion of a new 
college hall has just set the crown upon your academic jubilee. 
Short as its history has been, your College is already associated 
with noted names in science and literature — we need only mention 
Balfour Stewart, Roscoe, Osborne Reynolds, and Ward. Since 
the foundation of the Owens College, there have passed through 
its lecture halls a multitude of students, whose subsequent work 
has shed lustre on their Alma Mater ; and, like their predecessors, 
the younger men who have been called to its Chairs have shown 
themselves both apt and ready in utilising the resources placed 
at their disposal, and have contributed to the extension of human 
knowledge both by their teaching and by their researches. 
To our congratulations at this festival, which celebrates your 
fiftieth anniversary, we beg to add the expression of an ardent desire 
that the admirable progress and promise of your vigorous youth may 
he fulfilled in a long-enduring and still more glorious maturity. 
In name and on behalf of the Council of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh, 
(Signed) Kelvin, President. 
G. Chrystal, General Secretary. 
March 25, 1902. 
On the occasion of the Coronation of Elis Majesty the King, 
the Council nominated Sir John Murray to act as the Society’s 
representative. 
Kew arrangements have recently been made with regard to the 
issue of reprints of papers from the Proceedings of the Society. 
These are now issued to authors in advance of the parts of the 
Proceedings containing the collected papers, as soon as possible 
after the return of the final proof to the printer. These separate 
copies are provided with appropriate title covers, and are placed 
on sale at once at a fixed scale of prices, the date of such 
publication being printed on each paper. Eurther, the number 
of free copies presented to each author has been increased from 
twenty-five to fifty. 
