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Excerpt from Roger Bacon: Essays Contributed by Various Writers on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of His Birth The Commemoration of the Seventh Centenary of Roger Bacon's birth was undertaken by an Executive Committee, consisting of Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M., K.C.B., then President of the Royal Society (Chairman), Cloudesley Brereton, Sir William Crookes, O.M., now President of the Royal Society, F. A. Dixey, J. P. Gilson, Sir George Greenhill, A. G. Little, F. Madan, Sir William Osler, Professor Poulton, Lieutenant-Colonel Hime (Secretary), Sir Alfred B. Kempe (Treasurer). A General Committee, consisting of subscribers and collaborators, was formed under the presidency of the Right Honourable the Earl Curzon of Kedleston, Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The proposals of the Committee were (1) to erect a statue of Roger Bacon (by Mr. Hope Pinker) in the University Museum; (2) to issue the present memorial volume of essays; (3) to raise a fund for the publication of Roger Bacon's works. As regards the last object, the hopes of the Committee have been only partially realized. Arrangements have been made for editing the pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum with Bacon's introduction and commentary (by Robert Steele), Bacon's medical treatises (by E. Withington and A. G. Little), and probably the Communia Mathematicae (by Robert Steele and Professor D. E. Smith). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.