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Dr. Jordan (Tring) said at this late hour it was quite unneces- 

 sary for him to say much, but this he would say — that the Con- 

 gress had already achieved its idea of bringing together friends 

 (applause). At Brussels many of them met for the first time, 

 and now here in Oxford the friendship which sprang up at their 

 first International Congress had been renewed and strengthened. 

 Some entomologists in their researches were very much in favour 

 of one theory, while others were equally in favour of another, 

 but all their studies were really directed to the same point 

 — they wanted to know the inner cause of what they were 

 studying, they wanted to know what lay behind the variation, 

 behind the differences between the species. Let them strive 

 to get as accurate a knowledge of the science they were studying 

 as they could, and let them bear in mind that they were not only 

 working for this generation, but also for those who were to follow 

 them (applause). 



The company then dispersed. 



