ox THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES 

 OE AMERICA AND (^ER^MANY, ESPECIALLY IN THE 

 EIELD OF SCIENCE/' 



I'.v Ih-rr WiMiEi.M Waldeyer. 



The rapid flight of tiiiie lias again Ijroiight round tho (hxy that "we 

 ghidly set apart for presenting to our iUustrious protector. His 

 Majesty the Emperor and King, our veneration and homage, and 

 for offering him, with loyal gratitude, our hearty congratuhitions in 

 the name of his Academy of Sciences, in AAdiich he retains a vivid 

 interest, which he has especially signified this very day by presenting 

 to the permanent secretary a golden chain of office. 



May our knightly and warm-hearted prince continue to withstand, 

 as heretofore, the assaults of advancing years, and may he be enabled 

 to maintain enduringly and firndy that noble and lofty aim of his 

 political efforts — the preservation of peace and its blessings. Indeed 

 the past year, in which we have been forced to Avitness one of the most 

 powerful dramas in the world's history, the first great struggle 

 around the shores of the Pacific Ocean, brings this wish home to us. 

 In the distant East there still resounds the din of the frightful war 

 which began last year immediately after we had here assembled for 

 a festival like the present. And now its convulsions approach our 

 own borders I AVhat the year just begun may bring to us from these 

 almost inconceivable complications we know not, but one thing we 

 do know — that we may trust our sovereign. God bless him and 

 his house I 



While a view of the East shows us a gloomy picture, toward the 

 West we see a bright and joyous one. In the heart of the great 

 American X^nion the peoples of this terrestrial l)all assembled for 

 a work of peace which we venture to hope may spread its blessings 

 as far as our own boundaries. There indeed our own country, thanks 



o Address delivered at the public session of the Royal Prussian Academy of 

 Sciences. .Tnnuary 26. 1905, on the occasion of the celebration of tbt^ birthday 

 of His Majesty the Eniperoi' and Kins, and the anniversary of Kiiii,' Fivdericlv 

 ir. Translated with revisions by the author from Sitzunssberichto des 

 Koniglichen Preusssicheu Academie der Wissenschaften, IV, 2() .Januar, 1905. 



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