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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



On the morning of June 23, in the Senate House, was the ceremony 

 of presenting addresses. These were of course not read, but were 

 handed to the chancellor as the names of the delegates were announced. 

 Some, perhaps expecting to make a short speech, had no document to 

 offer, but others had quite large books, elaborately bound and orna- 

 mented. The Japanese offerings looked particularly bulky and inter- 

 esting; one could not help feeling curious as to their contents. 



Dr. Francis Darwin*. 



Although it was impossible to read the addresses, short speeches 

 were made by representatives of Germany, France, the United States 

 and Great Britain, these being Professor Oscar Hertwig, Professor 

 Metchnikoff, Professor Osborn and Sir E. Pay Lankester respectively. 

 The last speaker took somewhat controversial ground, maintaining the 

 validity of the theory of the natural selection of minute and ubicpiitous 

 variations, and stating that certain views advanced by modern natural- 

 ists had been duly considered by Darwin, and for sufficient reasons set 

 on one side. It could not be doubted, he said, that Darwin would have 



