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THE celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the University of Berlin began on Mon day with a reception of the representatives of universities and other bodies and a torchlight procession of students. The principal ceremony was held on Tuesday in the new Great Hall of the University. The Emperor and Empress, with the Prussian Princes and a brilliant retinue, attended, and his Majesty delivered an address. The festivities will be continued until Thursday night. A Reuter message from Berlin states that all the German and the principal foreign universities of the world are represented by special dele gates. The representatives appointed by British universi ties are (in alphabetical order):—Aberdeen, Principal G. A. Smith; Cambridge, Sir J. J. Thomson; Cape Town, Prof. Marais; Dublin, Prof. Mahaffy; Durham, Vice-Chancellor Dr. Jevons; Edinburgh, Prof. H. J. Eggeling and Sir W. Turner; Glasgow, Principal Macalister; London, Sir H. E. Roscoe and Sir W. Ramsay; Mel bourne, Prof. Masson; Montreal, Lord Strathcona; Oxford, Mr. R. W. Macan, the Master of University; Toronto, Prof. McCurdy.. The British Academy is repre sented by Lord Reay; the Royal Society by Sir Joseph Larmor; and the University of Paris by M. Henri Poincare.
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The Berlin University Centenary . Nature 84, 480 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084480a0
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