THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



toast to universities at home and abroad. I was also greatly 

 impressed with a speech made by Mr. Balfour, and by the talk 

 given by the Archbishop of Canterbury. I have forgotten the 

 subject of Mr. Balfour's toast, but that of the Archbishop was 

 "The Learned Societies in the Old and New World." He 

 was delighted that this toast had been entrusted to an ecclesi- 

 astic. He called his hearers' attention to the fact that Smith- 

 field and St. Paul's Cross were very near to the Guildhall, and 

 he remembered to have heard that there was once a great gather- 

 ing of orthodox ecclesiastics under that roof, or the one that 

 preceded it, together with certain adventurous students of 

 science, who might have been on their way to Smithfield that 

 the one group might see the other suffer. 



There were many other striking functions. The Duke and 

 Duchess of Northumberland gave a garden party at Syon 

 House, and one of the famous conversazioni of the Society 

 took place at Burlington House. But probably the most striking 

 of them all was a garden party at Windsor Castle, where the 

 members of the Society and the delegates were received by 

 Their Majesties, the King and Queen. The delegates were 

 grouped according to countries, and passed Their Majesties in 

 single file along the Rose Terrace. The garden party that fol- 

 lowed this reception was attended by nine thousand of Eng- 

 land's best. It was a beautiful day, the weather having grown 

 cooler. The wonderful green of the English trees and turf, the 

 brilliant colors of the summer costumes of the women, the 

 variegated refreshment marquees, the stirring strains of several 

 military bands, the sound of the charming English voices as 

 they passed from group to group, the feeling that one had that 

 he was mingling with the best that England could produce 

 in culture, attainment and social position — all these together 

 produced an exalted condition of mind not to be forgotten. 



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