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A SURVEY OF NATIONAL TRENDS IN BIOLOGY 



CHAPTER I 



INTRODUCTION 



Senor Rector, Senores Decanos, Senoras y Caballeros: 



Permit me to extend to you the greetings of Marquette 

 University, whose representative I have the honor to be, 

 and to express the hope that this beginning of an intel- 

 lectual exchange between the North and the South Ameri- 

 can universities, may lead to a better understanding and 

 appreciation of the work that each of us is doing. 



I also bring to you the personal greetings and good 

 wishes of one well known to all. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, 

 Director-General of the American College of Surgeons. 



It had ever been a dream of mine that some day I 

 might visit the second-oldest university in either of the 

 Americas — that of Cordoba — whose very name carries 

 with it visions of history and of romance. But I did not 

 dream that out of a clear sky an invitation would be 

 extended to me — the first, you tell me, extended to a 

 North American — to speak from this platform and in 

 this room, hallowed for more than three centuries by its 

 association with history and learning. If I can but give 



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