ROBERT HARRISSON

» Secrétaire adjoint R. S. »

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Kn conséquence, M. le D1 J. -H. Gladstone introduit le professeur Ramsay, qui prononce le discours suivant :

« Monsieur le Président, Messieurs,

» La Société Royale de Londres m’a chargé de transmettre à M. Berthelot ses félicitations sincères et les vœux qu’elle forme pour que, dans sa longue existence, il puisse continuer les travaux qui ont rendu son nom si illustre. L’Adresse que je suis chargé de présenter est conçue dans les termes suivants :

To M. Marcelin Berthelot,

Senator , laie Minister for Foreign AJfairs, Member of lhe Institute. a Sir,

» The Royal Society is gratified to learn tliat your friends and colleagues hâve determined to offer y ou some mark of their admiration and esteem on the completion by you of fifty years of scienlific aclivity. We desire to associate ourselves with their action and to offer you on our behalf our warm félicitations on so auspicions an occasion.

» You hâve been an indefatigable worker in almost every fîeld of Chemical enquiry. Your contributions to Chemical littérature number close upon a thousand and range over practically every department of the Science : philosophical, historical, physical, pure and applied.

» We recall with pleasure that for nearly one half of lhe period over which your labours entend the Royal Society lias had the honour to count you among its Foreign Members, and in the award to you first of the Davy Medal and then of the Copley Medal, the greatest honour which it is in their power to bestow. Its Fellows hâve tought to make manifest their high appréciation of your unwearied and unselfish dévotion to Science, and their sense of the value and importance of the results which hâve flowed from your labours.

» That you may hâve many years of intellectual activity still before you, and that you may continue to enrich those departments of Science with

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which your name is indissolubly connected, is the fervent hope and heartfelt wish of the Royal Society.

» I hâve the honour to he, Sir, your most ohedient servant,