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Duco ad vos de Balneo equitem insignem, virum Principis nostri in domo 
merito probatum, Robertum Nigel Fitz-IIardinge Kingscote. 
’ i The next that is present to-day is one who was once distinguished in war, and lias long been 
illustrious in the arts of peace. In the first place, he was for three-and-thirty years a member of 
Parliament ; in the second, he has been appointed a Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and 
Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall ; and lastly, he has done admirable service in the discharge of 
the customary business of the Royal Agricultural Society. We have before us one whom Ennius 
would have described as a man of excellent heart, '' an exemplary correspondent, and an 
unwearied student of animal hygiene. 
I present to you a distinguished Knight Commander of the Bath, one who is held in well- 
deserved esteem in the Household of our Prince, Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitz-Hardinge 
Kingscote. 
Mr. Albert Pell. 
Iuris Doctorum agmen claudit alumnus noster, iudicis Alius, qui 
adhuc iuvenis quattuor et quinquaginta abliinc annos societatis vestrae con- 
ventui primo Cautabrigiensi interfuit; qui postea, pestilentia gravi inter 
Britanniae boves saeviente, consilia salutaria solus obtulit pestemque tan- 
tam iussu publico opprimendam curavit : qui deiuceps Senatui Britannico 
per annos septemdecim adscriptus, agri culturae patronus strenuus exstitit ; 
qui nuper denique Academiam nostram Seueschalli sui cum auxilio de agri 
culturae studiis deliberantem magnopere adiuvit. Quod seientiae huius 
diplomata nostra bodie in honore sunt, talium virorum praesertim consiliis 
debemus. 
Duco ad vos Academiae quidem nostrae artium magistrum, Britanniae 
vero agricolarum revera praeceptorem atque adeo doctorem, Albertum 
Pell. 
The line of our honorary Doctors in Law closes with the son of a Judge and a member of our 
own University, who, as an undergraduate four-and-fifty years ago, was present at the first 
Cambridge Meeting of the Society. Afterwards, when a grievous plague was raging among the 
cattle of our own country, he stood alone in offering salutary advice which led to measures being 
taken by the Government that soon put an end to the pestilence. Thereupon, ho was enrolled in 
the Senate of England, and for seventeen years proved himself an unwearied champion of agriculture 
in Parliament. Lastly, when our University with theaid of its High Steward (Lord Waisingham) 
was recently deliberating on the subject of agricultural studies, hisadvice was of the highest value. 
The respect in which our diplomas of agriculture are now held is pre-eminently due to the 
counsels of men such as these. 
I present to you one who is a Master of Arts in our own University, but is at the same time a 
leading authority, a very Doctor, among the agriculturists of England, Mr. Albert Pell. 
Doctors of Science. 
Sir John Bennet Lawes, Bart., F.B.S. 
Salutamus tamlem par liobile collegarum qui de agrorum cultura, de 
pecudum alimentis variis, experiments exquisitis una elaborandis annos quin- 
quaginta, magnum profecto aetat.is humanae spatium, dedicarunt. Tot 
annorum autem labores non modo chartae fideles in perpetuum custodient, 
sed etiam saxum ingens nomine utroque insculptum inter posteros testabitur. 
Ab ipso autem “ monumentum aere perennius ” erit exactum, experimentis 
tam utilibus, tarn fructuosis, niunificentia ipsius etiam in posterum conti- 
nuatis. Auguramur, nec nos fallit augurium, in agri culturae annalibus 
talium virorum nomina fore immortalia. 
Duco ad vos Baronettum insignem, Regiae societatis socium, virum doc- 
toris titulo bis aliunde merito ornatum, Ioannem Bennet Lawes. 
At length we reach the names of two generous fellow-workers who have devoted fifty years, a 
large portion of the length of life allotted to man, to aiding one another in the most elaborate 
experiments on the growth of crops, and on the various foods appropriate to the animals of the 
farm. The labours of all those years will find a perpetual memorial in the printed record of the 
investigations themselves, and will also be attested in the presence of posterity by the granite 
boulder that bears the names of both ; while the generous provision which has been made for the 
future continuance of experiments that have proved so rich in valuable results, will ensure to 
the munificent founder himself “ a monument more imperishable than bronze.” 1 We prognos- 
1 Horace, Odes iii 30, 1. 
