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Für die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft be- 

 deutet der heutige Tag jedenfalls den Anfang einer neuen Epoche. 

 Die alte war glänzend; die neue wird sicher noch glänzender 

 werden. In dieser festen Überzeugung rufen wir Ihnen heute ein 

 frohes und herzliches Glückauf zu ! 



Als Vertreter des Präsidenten des American Museum of 

 Natural History, Morris K. Jesup, und als Abgesandter des 

 Museums selbst spricht der Direktor des Museums Prof. Dr. 

 B u m p u s aus New York : 



Your Royal Highness, 



Your Excellency, 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



It is my pleasure to attend these impressive exercises in two 

 capacities. 



First, as the personal representative of Mr. Morris K. Jesup, 

 I am a favored messenger, bringing from across the ocean assur- 

 ances of his deep interest in your venerable society, his sympathy 

 with your efforts, his high regard for your scientific achievements, 

 his feeling of respect for those of your Society who have added 

 so bountifully to the fund of human knowledge, his congratulations 

 on the beauty and fitness of your new building, and his sense 

 of honor at being elected one of your number. 



Universities — German and American — recognizing that human 

 interests transend territorial boundaries, and that the catholicity 

 of education is uninfluenced by political accident, have adopted 

 a system of professorial exchange whereby the scholars and leadfers 

 of thought in one country exert a direct influence upon the educa- 

 tional system of the other. 



It is with the idea of establishing between museums similar 

 conditions of reciprocity ; it is in recognition of the influence that 

 the inductive methods of German research have had upon Ameri- 

 can science, it is in acknowledgment of the intimate scientific as 

 well as educational relations that prevail between the two coun- 

 tries, and with the conviction that the mere contemplation of one 

 of the extraordinary representatives of the remote geological past 

 will prove of influence in the advancement of science, will excite 



