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wanderings of over half a century, had at length brought it 
back to the scene of its earliest triumphs. The University 
authorities resolved that the second visit of the Society to 
Cambridge should not pass without some official recognition on 
their part of the work which the Society has done — and is 
doing — to promote the interests and to extend our knowledge of 
the first of human industries. 
What more graceful form could this recognition take than 
the enrolment upon its records of the names of those whom the 
University knew that the Society itself would delight to 
honour ? Accordingly, it was resolved by a Grace of the 
Senate to confer the following Honorary Degrees : — that of 
LL.D. upon His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the Duke 
of Richmond and Gordon, Earl Cathcart, Sir John Thorold, 
Colonel Sir Nigel Kingscote, and Mr. Albert Pell ; that of 
D.Sc. upon Sir John Lawes and Sir Henry Gilbert ; and that 
of M.A. upon Mr. Ernest Clarke and Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker. 1 
The ceremony took place in the Senate House on the beautiful 
morning of Wednesday, June 27, in the presence of a brilliant 
assembly. The Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the Uni- 
versity, presided, and seated on his Grace’s right were their 
Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, attired in his robes 
as LL.D. of the University, the Princess of Wales, and the 
Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales. The honorary 
graduates were loudly cheered as, one by one, they were 
presented by the Public Orator to the Chancellor, and admitted 
by the latter to their respective degrees. 
The following is the text of the Latin orations delivered by 
the Public Orator, Dr. Sandys, Fellow and Tutor of St. John’s 
College, through whose kindness an English translation is given 
of each. 
Address of Welcome to the Society. 
Dignissime domine, domine Cancellarie ; Principes illustrissimi ; ceterique 
omnes quotquot liodie adestis : 
Principis nostri, plusquam semel Praesidis sui, auspicio, Cancellari' 
nostri sut) praesidio, Regiam agricolarum Anglicorum societa.tem Canta- 
brigiam denuo invisentem Academiae totius nomine iubemus salvere. Ipso 
Tullio auctore novimus, primum nihil Xenophonti tarn regale visum esse 
quam studium agri colendi ; deinde liominum generi universo culturam 
agrorum esse salutarem ; denique omnium rerum ex quibus aliquid adquiratur, 
nihil esse agri cultura melius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine dignius. Salvete 
1 Honorary Degrees were upon the same occasion conferred upon Mr. 
Alexander Peckover, the newly appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire 
(LL.D.), and upon Professor Mendeleeff, the distinguished Russian chemist 
(D.Sc.) 
