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gen ; the other in those of Germany — black, red, and gold. Just 

 outside the city gates there was a triumphal arch, and the cathedrals 

 and all the steeples of the churches were profusely decorated with 

 flags and streamers. The weather was beautiful. In one of the pub- 

 lic gardens the dinner table had been spread in the open air, where at 

 least 1500 people sat down. During dinner a well-conducted band 

 kept plaj'ing. A fine effect was produced by a chorus of singers, con- 

 sisting of peasants, both men and women, of the neighbouring district ; 

 they were all dressed in their native costume, and, headed by a fine- 

 looking fellow of their party, who carried their banner, they marched 

 around the table at which the naturalists were sitting. After dinner, 

 most of the party paid a visit to the Achalm, the ruins of a castle men- 

 tioned in one of Uhland's ballads. The view from thence was charm- 

 ing. The vineyards surrounding the ruin, the town of Reutlingen, the 

 rivulets, the distant chain of mountains, with its old feudal castles, 

 formed a pleasing panorama, and amply repaid the exertions of those 

 who, after taking in a hearty dinner, and letting the wine-bottle pass 

 freely, had climbed the summit. In returning about eight o'clock in 

 the evening to Tubingen, there was a firework on the top of the hill 

 on which the castle is built. It produced almost a magical effect to 

 see the old Gothic building illumined by the different-coloured fires, 

 and the numerous rockets, with their blue, red, and white nuclei, 

 shooting up into the sky. In short, there was plenty of amusement 

 during the whole time of the meeting. Balls, concerts, dinner-parties 

 alternated with each other ; there was even once, so as as to give a 

 notion of German-student life, a representation of a " Kneipe," in 

 which grave professors, throwing aside for a while all reserve, acted 

 the part of students and freshmen. 



The scientific part of the meeting was equally satisfactory. In the 

 three general or public sittings none but subjects treated in a popular 

 manner were this time admitted, and all papers that could in the least 

 offend the ear of ladies had been strictly rejected, — a laudable restric- 

 tion, probably adopted in consequence of the complaints made by the 

 press that medical subjects not intended for any but medical men had 

 been brought forward. One of the first speakers was Jaeger, of Stutt- 

 gart, who gave a brief account of the last year's labours of the Impe- 

 rial L. C. Academy of Naturalists, detailing that, as the first German 

 institution, it had assumed the protectorship over the Societies of Ger- 

 man Physicians at Paris and New York, that it had asked for three 

 prize essays, and that the King of Wirtemberg had shown his good 

 will towards the Academy by presenting it with a sum of money, to 

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