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upon the services which my country has been able to render to science; and on 

 the other hand it would be difficult for me to say to you exactly what part America 

 is called upon to take in this concert of civilized nations ; but I am certain that the 

 part will be worthy of the great nation which has given to itself a constitution so 

 liberal and which in so short a space of time has known how to conquer, and 

 measure in value, a territory so immense that it extends from ocean to ocean. I 

 lift my glass to the honor of American science; I drink to the future of that great 

 nation, for which we, as well as all other Frenchmen, hold so much of common 

 remembrance, so much of close and living sympathy, and so much of profound 

 admiration. I am the more happy to do this in this most beautiful territory of 

 Louisiana, which France in a former age ceded freely to America. 



Perhaps the treat of the evening was the response made in behalf 

 of the Empire of Japan by Professor Hozumi, of the Faculty of Law 

 of the University of Tokio. 



Unfortunately this response was not preserved in full, but Professor 

 Hozumi dwelt with much feeling on the world- wide significance of the 

 Congress and the common plane upon which all nations might meet 

 in the pursuit of science and the manifold applications of scientific 

 principles. He paid a beautiful tribute to the educational system of the 

 United States and to the great debt which Japan owed to American 

 scholars and to American teachers for their aid in establishing mod- 

 ern educational principles and methods in the Empire of Japan. The 

 impetus given to scientific study in Japan by the Japanese students 

 trained in American universities was also earnestly dwelt upon, and 

 the close relations which had always existed between Japanese and 

 American students and instructors feelingly described. In the field 

 of science Japan was yet young, but she had shown herself a close 

 and apt pupil, and her period of initiative and original research was 

 at hand. In bacteriology, in medicine, in seismology, oceanography, 

 and other fields, Japan has made valuable contributions to science 

 and established the right to recognition in an international gathering 

 of this nature. It was with peculiar and grateful pride and pleasure 

 that the Japanese Government had sent its delegation to this Con- 

 gress of selected experts in response to the invitation of the American 

 Government. Near the close of his address Professor Hozumi made 

 a gracious and happy allusion, based upon the conflict with Russia, 

 in which he said that of all places where men meet, and of all places 

 sunned by the light of heaven, this great Congress, built on the high 

 plane of the brotherhood of science and the fellowship of scholars, 

 was the only place where a Japanese and a Russian could meet in 

 mutual accord, with a common purpose, and clasp hands in unity of 

 thought. This chivalrous and beautiful idea, given here so imper- 

 fectly from memory, brought the great assembly to its feet in rounds 

 of cheers. In closing, Professor Hozumi expressed the earnest belief 

 that the benefits of science from a gathering of this nature would 

 quickly be felt, by a closer cooperation in the application of theory 



