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chusetts in miniature, for the Society attracted the allegiance of her 

 noblest sons who represented the one true aristocracy — the aris- 

 tocracy of spirit. 



Among the distinguished company present on this occasion were 

 His Excellency, Governor John D. Long;* President Charles W. 

 Eliot of Harvard University ; Professor Asa Gray, the illustrious 

 botanist; Doctor Alexander Agassiz, Director of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology; Count Louis Francois de Pourtales; Dr. 

 Samuel Eliot, Superintendent of the Public Schools ; Miss Lueretia 

 Crocker, Supervisor of the Public Schools; Dr. D. Humphreys 

 Storer; Judge G. W. Warren ; Hon. Josiah Quincy ; Professor E. S. 

 Morse ; Colonel Theodore Lyman ; Dr. J. C. White ; Professor F. W. 

 Putnam; Rev. Robert C. Waterston; Mr. Justin Winsor, Librarian 

 at Harvard University; and Mr. John Cummings. The President 

 of the Society, Mr. Thomas T. Bouve, was in the chair. 



The addresses of such speakers as Governor Long, President 

 Charles W. Eliot, Doctor Alexander Agassiz, Rev. Robert C. 

 Waterston, and Dr. Samuel Eliot were worthy of the occasion. 

 In order to do them justice it is expedient to reproduce their own 

 words whose value would be lost in compression or paraphrase. 



ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR LONG 



I remember that the seeds of your noble institution, like those 

 of so many of the best fruits of New England, were sown not alto- 

 gether by the scientists nor by any one profession, but by common 

 men who lifted up their eyes above the ordinary toil of life, and 

 who for themselves and their fellow-men reached out to higher 

 levels of knowledge and usefulness. I remember, too, that your first 

 great endowment came from a merchant — type of the unbroken 



* Governor John D. Long was Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley, 1897-1902. 



