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At 9 o'clock the Hon. Richard Vaux, as toast-master, 

 on behalf of the Committee of Arrangements, pro- 

 posed consecutively the regular toasts, and, ntro- 

 ducing the first speaker, said : 



Fellows of the American Philosophical Society: — 

 By direction of the President, it becomes my happiness 

 to shorten the time of your expectation here. I 

 will try to relieve you of some of the pains and penal- 

 ties by stating that in a few minutes you will have some 

 tobacco, the effect of which upon your intellectual 

 capacities will enable you clearly to understand what I 

 am about to say to you, and to appreciate far more 

 fully the reply that will be made. I ask you, therefore, 

 to fill the first toast : " The Language of Science and 

 Philosophy is universal, but adopts various dialectic 

 FORMS TO DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE." If you doubt the truth 

 of that sentiment, I will ask Prof. John W. Mallet, 

 M.D., LL.D., of the Royal Society of London, to give 

 you any reason why that is not true. 



Mr. President : — In accepting the invitation to the Eoyal 

 Society to be jDresent in the person of a delegate on this occa- 

 sion, it was the wish of the President of that Society to do full 

 honour to the invitation, and that one of its Fellows resident in 

 England should cross the Atlantic for the purpose, but in the 

 time at disposal for correspondence it was not possible to find one 

 who could undertake at present the double voyage necessary. 

 While I regret that the Eoyal Society is not more worthily 

 represented, I cannot but feel it a high honour that it falls to 

 my lot to appear as the delegate of the oldest scientific society 

 in the world which retains its original form to the oldest of 

 such societies in the New "World of America. And the 



