From Dutch Settlements 

 to the Rutgers Institute 

 of Microbiology 



By ALBERT J. KLUYVER 



Professor of Microbiology, 

 Technical University, Delft, Holland 



It will be unnecessary to assure you that I 

 felt greatly honored on receiving the invitation to address 

 this distinguished audience on behalf of the microbiolo- 

 gists from abroad. But it was only natural that I also started 

 pondering why this privilege was granted to me. 



Fortunately, the letter of invitation contained the clue 

 to this riddle, for mention was made of the close ties that 

 from the very beginning have linked Rutgers University 

 with the Netherlands. 



To the Dutch ear the name Rutgers University immedi- 

 ately suggests that at some time there must have been an 

 intimate relation between this institution and a man of 

 Dutch descent. True, the great philanthropist Henry Rut- 

 gers, who in 1825 at the age of 80 succeeded in acquiring 

 immortality by his, for those days, princely gift of |5000 

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