of Edinburgh, Session 1876-77. 
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2. Report of the Deputation to Upsala. 
By Alexander Buchan, M.A. 
The Deputation appointed by the Council to represent the Society 
on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the 
University of Upsala consisted of Mr Sprague and myself. 
Professor Balfour and Professor Sir Wyville Thomson, who re- 
presented the Edinburgh University, also joined the Deputation. 
The Latin Address from the Society for presentation by the 
Deputation having been prepared, was signed in the absence of the 
President by the Secretary. The Address, a copy of which accom- 
panies the Report, is in its conception and execution, a characteristic 
specimen of quaint and exact Latinity. It is wholly the work of 
Mr Gordon, the Society’s Assistant Librarian. 
The Deputies assembled by previous arrangement at the Grand 
Central Railway Station, Stockholm, on the afternoon of Tuesday, 
September 4, to be conveyed by royal express train to Upsala. 
At 4.15 p.m. the train left the station amid the cheers and con- 
gratulations of an immense assemblage of the inhabitants. About 
seven o’clock Upsala was reached, and the whole of the inhabitants 
appeared to have assembled at the station to do honour to their 
guests. Of this great assemblage, the white caps of the students 
filled the whole central space. Young Count Hamilton, in name 
of the students, welcomed the Deputies, and thereafter the renowned 
choir of this University sang one of the Swedish national airs. 
In the evening a meeting of all the Deputies was held for the 
purpose of deciding on the order of procedure to be observed in 
presenting the Addresses on the Wednesday. Since the number of 
learned bodies represented amounted to about seventy, it was re- 
solved that, to save time, the different bodies be grouped into 
nationalities, the Deputies choosing their own representative speaker, 
while the Addresses would be presented without remark. The 
British Deputies chose Professor Balfour as their representative 
speaker. The British Deputies were, in addition to those already 
named, Professor Humphry for Cambridge University, and they 
were joined by Dr Curling of London, Fellow of the Royal Society, 
