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Dr. HEINRICH VON Kapicu. I move that the nomination be ratified. 
[The motion was duly seconded. ] 
The CHAIRMAN. You have heard the motion. As many as are in favor of the 
ratification say ‘‘Aye;” the contrary, ‘‘No.’’ ‘The motion prevails. 
I have to announce further that Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Commissioner of 
the United States Bureau of Fisheries, has been nominated for secretary-general. 
A motion to ratify this selection is in order. 
Lieut. RADLER DE AguINo. I move that the nomination be ratified. 
The CHAIRMAN. As many as are in favor of the ratification of this selection 
say “‘Aye;” the contrary, ‘“‘No.” The “ayes” have it, and Doctor Smith is 
duly elected secretary-general. 
The permanent officers have now been selected, and I surrender the chair, 
with expression of the hope that the deliberations of this congress will be 
pleasurable and profitable, and that when you go hence, at the conclusion of 
the meeting, you will carry with you the feeling that the long journey many of 
you have made has not been made in vain. I wish you happiness and suc- 
cess. Doctor Bumpus, will you come forward? [Applause.] 
Doctor Bumpus. On assuming the chair, I will ask if any one is prepared to 
acknowledge the courtesies that have been extended to us by the Honorable 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, by the Honorable Commissioner of Fish- 
eries, and by the Honorable Commissioner of the District of Columbia? 
Dr. P. P. C. Hoex (Holland). You will please excuse my poor English, 
gentlemen. I might address you in another language as well, yet I believe that 
though my English is not quite pure, still most of you might understand me 
better than if I addressed you, say, in Dutch. 
Gentlemen, I have been asked, and I have accepted the invitation with great 
pleasure, to address, first, to the United States Government, and especially the 
Bureau of Fisheries of the Department of Commerce and Labor; in the second 
place, to the District of Columbia; and in the third place, to the American 
Fisheries Society, the hearty thanks of the congress for this splendid and 
extremely agreeable reception here in Washington. But it is not only for that 
reception—it is especially for the excellent way in which this congress has been 
prepared—that we are extremely grateful to the secretary-general, of course, in 
the first place, and to the president, and to all the gentlemen who have given 
themselves the trouble to assist these other gentlemen in this matter. 
Ladies and gentlemen, may I use this opportunity to tell you that a few days 
ago I came across an American book, a book published, I think, about thirty-five 
years ago and then studied by me with great pleasure on the other side, a book 
which I have not seen since? It was a book by Draper, and the title of that 
book was ‘‘The History of the Struggle between Religion and Science.” It is 
not for the question of that struggle that I quote that book, but it is because the 
