Memoirs presented to the Cambridge philosophical society on the occasion of the jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, bart., Hon. LL. D., Hon. SC. D., Lucasian professor.

ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
AT THE
FORMAL CELEBRATION BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
OF
THE JUBILEE OF
SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, BART., M.A., HON. LL.D., HON. Sc.D.
Thursday, 1 June, 1899.
In the evening the Vice-Chancellor was present at a Conversazione in the
Fitzwilliam Museun. About one thousand guests accepted the invitation of
the University.
Lord Kelvin, on behalf of the subscribers to the marble busts of Sir G. G.
Stokes by Hamo Thornycroft, R.A., offered one of them to the University,
and the other to Pembroke College. The former was accepted on behalf of the
University by the Vice-Chancellor, the latter on behalf of the College by the
Rev. C. H. Prior. M.A.
Friday, 2 June, 1899. A Congregation was held this day at 11 A.M.
Sir G. G. Stokes sat on the right hand of the Vice-Chancellor.
The Delegates sent by Universities, Academies, Colleges and Societies were
presented to the Vice-Chancellor in the chronological order of the Institutions
represented.
The names of the Institutions and of the Delegates were announced by
the Registrary, as follows:
University of Paris Professor Gaston Darboux, Doyen de la Faculté
des Sciences.
University of Oxford Sir William Reynell Anson, Bart., M.P., and
Robert Edward Baynes, M.A., Lee's Reader
in Physics.
University of Heidelberg Professor Quincke.
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