Among the excursions arranged for the Congress was one to Princeton 

 and I hurried down from Cataumet, to help receive the visitors, of whom 

 only a heroic little band appeared. The others had been so completely 

 exhausted with journeys and receptions that they gave out and begged 

 for a chance to rest, Hubrecht, who brought with him a party of ladies 

 from Holland, lay down in a pew in the chapel and went sound asleep, 

 while I escorted the ladies around the campus. Dr. Farr and I had 

 prepared an exhibition of the Santa Cruz fossils from Patagonia and 

 over these Deperet and I nearly came to blows. Among the exhibits 

 were the architects' tentative elevations for our new building, which 

 was to be named "Guyot Hall." 



Mr. Cleveland Dodge, a classmate of Wilson's, had announced that 

 his mother would erect a building for geology and biology, which 

 should correspond to the magnificent physical laboratory which Mr. 

 Stephen Palmer was putting up. Mr. Dodge authorised me to appoint 

 a travelling committee which, accompanied by one of the architects, 

 Mr. Schroeder, was to make a study of all the laboratories within reach, 

 which might give us valuable suggestions. Accordingly, Professors 

 Phillips, McClure and van Ingen and Mr. Schroeder examined every 

 important building of the kind between Boston and Chicago and south- 

 ward to Baltimore and Washington. The floor plans, worked out by the 

 departments concerned and put in shape by van Ingen, were accepted 

 by the architects with hardly any change. Being, thus, practically de- 

 signed by the men who were to use it, Guyot Hall has always been a 

 very satisfactory place in which to work. 



Immediately after the visit of the (small fraction of the) Congress, I 

 returned to Cataumet and spent the remainder of the summer in seeing 

 the second edition of my Geology through the press. While still there, I 

 received a letter from the secretary of Harvard University, saying he 

 hoped that I might be sent, as one of the Princeton delegates, to the 

 inauguration of the new President, Mr. A. L. Lowell, in the coming 

 October. For this, the very gratifying reason was given that it was 

 proposed to confer upon me the degree of D.Sc, honoris causa. The 

 inaugural ceremonies at Cambridge, held, for the most part, out of 

 doors, were beautiful and impressive. The presentation of the delegates 

 to the retiring and the incoming Presidents took place in Saunders 

 Theatre. The Princeton contingent, Woodrow Wilson, Henry van 

 Dyke and myself, was received with great applause, more enthusiastic, I 

 thought at the time than that given to any other delegation. It will be 



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