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Edwin H. Land, Sir Alfred Egerton, and Sanborn C. Brown pose for a photograph while attending a dinner celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Count Rumford, the British physicist. Original caption 1: "American Academy Arts & Sciences, Havard Club. L to R, Edwin Herbert Land, Pres, Sir Alfred Egerton, Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, Sanborn Conner Brown, Speaker MIT".

Original caption 2: "Honor Woburn Count--The bicentennial of the birth of Count Rumford was marked by noted scientists from here and abroad at the Harvard Club in a dinner program sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Left to right, Edwin H. Land, Academy president; Sir Alfred Egerton of London, Sanborn Conner Brown of M.I.T., principal speaker." Used in: Boston Herald, March 29 1953. Original credit line: Ernest MacLean for Boston Herald.