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38/ [[vertical note in red in left margin]] Royal Society Edinburgh [[/vertical note in red in left margin]]
as a famous restaurant of good service (no music) as in the [[strikethrough]] former [[/strikethrough]] days of last Century.
[[underline]] July 2 [[/underline]] Got a pleasant [[red underline]] invitation [[/red underline]] of the [[red underline]] Lord Mayor (Hall) of Liverpool [[/red underline]] to take dinner with him [[strikethrough]] at the [[/strikethrough]] and his daughter at [[red underline]] the Town Hall [[/red underline]] on July 6 before the official reception  Have immediately sent acknowledgement and acceptance  Have been notified by Prof. James Kendall that the [[red underline]] Royal Society of Edinburgh intends to make me Honorary member of that Scientific body [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] at its meeting [[/red underline]]  of [[red and black underline]] July 10 [[/red and black underline]] and asks me to come Find it impossible [[strikethrough]] if I [[/strikethrough]] because must catch SS. Bremen on that day which will bring me to New York just in time for going to preside the  Symposium of John Hopkins U. in Baltimore.  So wrote him accordingly and [[strikethrough]] wired [[/strikethrough]] telegraphed my regrets  He answered [[red underline]] will confer [[/red underline] the [[red underline]] honor "in absentia" [[/red underline]] The same as they did at the [[red underline]] U.S National Academy of Sciences [[/red underline]] while I was still in Florida.  So that settles this difficulty [[end page]]
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Spent most of day at British Museum. - Seems well cared for and well patronised as ever
[[underline]] July 3 [[/underline]] Wrote letters to Frederic, to Stauss; to Dyer-Smith etc [[vertical note in left margin in red]] Luncheon at the Liberal Club [[/vertical note in left margin in red]] Went to office at noon and was taken for luncheon by Potter and Kingsbury to the Liberal Club to [[red underline]] meet the several men at the head of Bakelite Limited [[/red underline]] Potter, Kingsbury, Montagre, [[red underline]] Perkins, Schmidt, Bishop, Taylor, Dring [[/red underline]] son of Kingsbury, [[red underline]] Salas, Robinson [[/red underline]]
Had a [[red underline]] room to ourselves.  Excellent [[/red underline]] luncheon, excellent spirit.  No formal speeches but just a round table expression of feeling and problems.  [[red underline]] Kingsbury [[/red underline]] started to which I had to say some words of thanks.  Then others like Potter, Dring, Perkins, Robinson Schmidt etc. all expressed the best sentiments lauding the Bakelite enterprises and its men.  All said [[red underline]] sincerely [[/red underline]] and making a [[red underline]] great impression [[/red underline]] upon me. - [[red underline]] Never in my younger years when I had my first visits to England could I have dreamed of all this. [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] After [[/strikethrough]] A [[red underline]] fine organisation manned by best men, happy [[/red underline]] and [[red underline]] proud [[/red underline]] in there work and of the company they serve. - The same spirit as in Bakelite corporation

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