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sign his name in the volume of the university register, while the 

 building rang with applause. The recipient, who also wore the red- 

 lined hood of his new doctorate, then responded in a short address. 

 In succession this form was gone through for Lord Kelvin, Lord 

 Lister, Sir John Evans, and Mr. Hardy, Attorney General of the 

 Dominion. Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, President of the American Asso- 

 ciation, was also similarly honored, but he was unable to be at To- 

 ronto in consequence of illness. 



The addresses made by the recipients were interesting as being 

 characteristic. Lord Kelvin spoke, in his distinctly Scotch accent, 

 as a univarsity man, of his interest in the university, and his pleasure 

 in receiving its honors as a tribute not to himself personally, but to 

 the interests of science, to which he had devoted his life. He re- 

 joiced in the growth and progress of Toronto University, its beautiful 

 site, its noble buildings, and its great influence on education through- 

 out the province; himself the son of a univarsity professor, growing 

 up in the atmosphere of such institutions into his own career, first 

 as a student and then as a professor, all his life had been spent in 

 such relations, and he knew them and loved them best of all. Lord 

 Lister spoke but briefly; he is a man of rather few words, with a 

 sweet and genial benevolence of aspect that is characteristic of the 

 kind, cultured, and aged physician. He could add little, he said, 

 to what Lord Kelvin had already expressed, save to make some par- 

 ticular reference to the work of the university in establishing and 

 advancing the high grade of medical education in the Dominion. 

 Sir John Evans followed, and referred to the contrast between his 

 own history and experience and that of Lord Kelvin, he never hav- 

 ing been a university man, and having gained and learned whatever 

 he had achieved without those early advantages and associations that 

 were so rich and attractive. Other addresses were made by Mr. 

 Hardy and the viceroy, Lord Aberdeen. 



The convocation at Trinity University was similar in general 

 character and aspect; but the beautiful chapel in which it was held 

 was so crowded that the writer was unable to enter, and can not 

 describe it in detail. 



The conversazione, held on the last evening before the close of 

 the meeting, in the main building of Toronto University, was a 

 brilliant social reception, less formal than that of the viceroy, and 

 unmarked by the military guards that formed so conspicuous a 

 feature at the Parliament House, but in other respects equally hand- 

 some and equally thronged. 



After the adjournment, on Wednesday, a banquet was given 

 to the chief officers of the association, which is described by those 

 present as again a very brilliant scene. The speeches that followed 



