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nPHE arrangements for the commemoration of the seven hundredth anniversary of the birth of Roger Bacon are now well advanced. The day appointed for the ceremony is Wednesday, June 10; the place, as is fitting, being Oxford. Proceedings will begin at noon with the unveiling, by Sir Archibald Geikie, of Mr. Hope-Pinker's statue of the great Franciscan, and its reception by Earl Curzon on behalf of the University. Addresses will be presented by delegates representing various bodies who have joined the movement, and the public orator, Mr. A. D. Godley, will deliver a Latin oration. All this will take place at the university museum. The delegates and some other visitors will be entertained at lunch by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, and doubtless other lunch parties will be arranged. At three o'clock all visitors will have the opportunity of attending the Romanes lecture. This will be given in the Sheldonian Theatre, the lecturer being Sir J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge, and his subject the atomic theory. From one to four o'clock various manuscripts and other objects of interest in connection with Roger Bacon and his successors will be on view in the Bodleian Library, and from four to half-past six a garden party will be held at Wadham College.
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The Roger Bacon Commemoration at Oxford . Nature 93, 354–355 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093354a0
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