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The success of the meeting has also been greatly assisted 

 by those Oxford residents who have offered hospitality to 

 our visitors, and we desire to give our special thanks to Prof, 

 and Mrs. Bourne, Prof, and Mrs. Percy Gardiner, Dr. and 

 Mrs. HoEY, Mr. and Miss Nagel, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 

 SiDGWiCK. I wish also to thank Mrs. Dixey and my wife and 

 my daughter for all they have done in helping to entertain 

 members of the Congress. 



The two excursions on Wednesday formed an important 

 feature of the meeting, and our thanks are specially due to those 

 who have so kindly received us, as well as to others who have 

 . expressed the wish to ofier hospitality to the Congress, and would 

 have done so had our numbers been larger. We heartily thank 

 the President and Fellows of St. John's College for entertaining 

 the party in Bagley Wood, and also the Rt. Hon. L. V. Har- 

 COURT, M.P., for his spontaneous suggestion that a party should 

 visit Nuneham. We also warmly thank Sir Arthur Evans, 

 F.R.S., who invited us to Youlbury, and Mr. Vernon and Lady 

 Margaret Watney, who invited us to Cornbury Park, and 

 we express our regret that the numbers of the Congress were 

 not sufficient for us to accept this kind hospitality, as we 

 should have greatly wished to do. I also desire to thank 

 in advance the Hon. Walter Rothschild, F.R.S., for the 

 excursion to the Tring Zoological Museum which will take 

 place to-morrow — a fitting and delightful end, to which we are 

 all looking forward with so much pleasure and interest. 



For the preliminary preparations, which had to be made long 

 before the opening of the Congress, we have to thank the very 

 efficient local committee with Dr. Dixey as chairman. At a 

 time when he was especially busy in preparations for the visit to 

 Oxford of Delegates for the 250th Anniversary of the Royal 

 Society, at such a time of stress, and with his many other in- 

 sistent duties. Dr. Dixey arranged for all the meetings of this 

 committee, and hospitably entertained its members in Wadham 

 College. We have to thank the secretaries, Mr. H. Eltringham 

 and Mr. G. H. Gros ve nor and the other members, all of whom 

 rendered most efficient help. Among them 1 may especially 

 mention Dr. G. B. Longstaff and Prof. Selwyn Image, who 

 came to Oxford on purpose for the meetings, and Commander 



