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have been more or less reported in our public press, in particular 

 tliat of Mr. James Bryce, on Jingoism, which has naturally at- 

 tracted considerable notice. Of this, and the many kind and enthusi- 

 astic words that were uttered on this occasion, there is no space here 

 to remark. Suffice it to say that there is a profound belief in the 

 minds of cultivated and thoughtful men of both Britain and Amer- 

 ica that the real heart of each nation is friendly to the other, and 

 that the harsh and reckless utterances of a sensational or partisan 

 press are no index to the true feelings of the people. Lord Lister 

 expressed this precise idea in a brief conversation with the writer, 

 as Mr. Bryce has also most forcibly done in both public and private 

 relations. 



Other aspects of the meeting must perforce be omitted, although 

 there is much temptation to linger upon them. The private hos- 

 pitality so freely shown, the attractive lawn parties in beautiful 

 grounds and houses of the city, such as " The Grange," where Prof. 

 Goldwin Smith received the visitors, and many like occasions of 

 social converse; the labors of the Local Committee, from the hard- 

 worked and efficient secretary, Professor Macallum, to the many 

 courteous assistants whose names are unrecognized and overlooked; 

 the immense impetus given by such a meeting to many forms of 

 scientific interest in the community and the Dominion, to bear fruit 

 and achieve important results for years to come — all these, and 

 many more, are subjects of delightful remembrance. For us, in 

 " the States," there should be also the influence of a healthful pride 

 and a kindly rivalry to strengthen and build up our own association, 

 and to appreciate more than perhaps we have before its importance 

 to the country and to science. The next meeting will signalize its 

 first half century, and it will be held, very fittingly, in Boston. 

 President Putnam, at the closing banquet, invited the British mem- 

 bers to come over and be our guests in 1898. At all events, let us 

 endeavor to make that meeting a memorable success, as was the 

 British meeting at Toronto. 



Projects are in agitation in England, France, and Germany for taming 

 African elephants and training tliem to work. It is proposed to establish 

 stations at suitable points in settlements near regions inhabited by ele- 

 phants, to which young animals may be brought, suitably cared for, and 

 broken in by skilled trainers imported from Asia. 



"Such is the innate folly of man," says Sir William Martin Conway, in 

 his First Crossing of Spitzbergen, "that when he sees a beautiful view, he 

 desires to be in the midst of it. . . . But the beauty is not there, but here, 

 whence it is beheld. Not on that golden surface of the rippled sea, not en 

 that rose-tinted peak, but here. Tell a man this a thousand times; repeat 

 it to yourself; it is useless." 



