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igitur studii tam praeclari professores, qui in agris colendis scientiam cum usu 
et experientia coniunctam profitemini. Vos, segetis laetae in expectatione, 
telluris gremio semina creditis ; nos, non miuore cum spe, iuventutis nostrae 
in mentibus doctrinae germina inserere conamur. Vos, in agrorum cultura 
scientiae lumen per Angliae ruralate diffunditis; nos, inter Academiae nostrae 
numina, etiam ipsi Cereri locum nuper seposuimus. Et vestra et nostra 
commoda suut aliquatenus communia ; vestrae artes dum vigent, etiam 
nosmet ipsi prospera fortuna utimur, florent praediorum nostrorum reditus, 
tiorent Collegia nostra, floret tota Universitas. Nihil igitur auspicatius 
liodie precari possumus quam ut, vestrae societatis auxilio, patriae totius ad 
fructum, civium omnium in usum, telluris munera divina indies ampliora 
vobis reddantur ; utque nostrum quoque in populum universum descendant 
benedictiones illae antiquae : — benedictus tu in civitate et benedictus in agro ; 
benedictns fructus terrae tucie fructusque iumentorum tuorum ; benedicti 
greges armentorum tuorum oviumque tuarum. 
Atque haee quidem ominis causa praefati, pergimus deinceps titulo 
nostro primum Principis nostri filium, Principis novi patrem, ornare, deinde 
A r estrum omnium in bonorem etiam alios decorare. Non omnes sane, quos 
volumus, bodie laudibus nostris adficere possumus ; sed, velut in frugibus 
vendendis vosmet ipsi ex acervo magno grana quaedam aurea emptoribus 
ostendere soletis, non aliter vestro ex ordine amplissimo nonnullos, quasi 
exempli causa, Cancellario nostro, Praesidi vestro, praesentamus, fidemque 
damus etiam ceteros esse bonae frugi. 
Your Royal Highnesses, your Grace the Chancellor, and all who are present to-day : 
In the name of the University we offer our welcome to the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England on its second visit to Cambridge, — a visit paid under the presidency of our Chancellor 
and under the auspices of a Prince who has been its President on more than one occasion. On 
the authority of Cicero himself we are assured, first, that Xenophon deemed agriculture to be an 
eminently royal pursuit ; 1 next, that it is salutary to the human race in general ; * and, lastly, 
that, of all possible sources of profit, none is more excellent, none more delightful, none more 
worthy of humanity. 3 Such is the noble pursuit whose professors we welcome in you, who, iu the 
calling of agriculture, claim to combine Science with Practice. While you , in expectation of a 
happy harvest, entrust the seed of your sowing to the bosom of the earth, we, with a hope no 
less bright than your own, endeavour to implant the germs of learning in the minds of our 
students. While you, in the cause of agriculture, are spreading the light of science far aud wide 
across the fields of England, we have been lately setting apart a place for Ceres herself among 
the divinities honoured by our University. Further, your own prosperity and ours are to a large 
extent linked together. When your pursuits are prosperous, we share in your prosperity, so long 
as the rents of our farms, and consequently all our Colleges and the University at large, are in a 
flourishing condition. Therefore, on this day we can breathe no more auspicious prayer than 
that, by the aid of your Society, the gifts of the Earth that are granted by Heaven may be 
reaped by yourselves in ever-increasing abundance, to the advantage of the country at large and 
to the benefit of all our citizens ; and that England may thus see descending upon her the 
benedictions promised to Israel of old: — “ Blessed shall thou be in the field; blessed shall be the 
fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy tine, and the flocks of thy 
sheep." * 
Having thus far assured you of our good wishes for the future, we now proceed to offer the 
compliment of our honorary degree, first to our Prince's son, himself the father of a new-born 
Prince ; and next to certain other persons, in the hope of doing honour thereby to all of your- 
selves. It is impossible for us to pay this compliment to-day to all whom we would desire to 
honour ; but, even as iu the corn market, the seller (as you are well aware) is wont to display to 
the buyer some few golden grains as samples of a goodly store, even so, out of your goodly 
company, do we now present to our Chancellor, and your own President, a few individuals by 
way of example, and in so doing we pledge our word that the remainder are of the same good 
quality. 
1 Cicero, De Senectute, 59. a Ibid. 56. 3 De Officiis, i 151. * Deut. xxviii 3. 
Doctors of Law. 
H.R.H. the Dulce of York. 
Dignissime domine, domine Cancellarie, et tota Academia : 
Quam libenter Reginae nostrae augustissimae et Principis Alberti, olim 
Cancellarii nostri, nepotem Academiae totius nomine nunc primum salutamus. 
