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on the left, Messrs. Joseph Bertrand, perma- 

 nent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences; 

 Charles Floquet, President of the Chamber; 

 Charles Dupuy, Minister of Public Instruction, 

 and all the other Ministers. Behind these offi- 

 cial personages were the delegations from the 

 Institute, the Academy of Medicine, and for- 

 eign scientific societies ; M. Greard, Vice-Rector 

 of the Academy of Paris; M. Perrot, Director 

 of the Ecole Normale; the deans of the facul- 

 ties, the presidents of the Court of Cassation, 

 of the Council of State and of the Court of Ap- 

 peals. 



The auditorium was occupied by delegations 

 from the schools and faculties, the General As- 

 sociation of Students, the hospital staffs, the 

 ficole Normale Superieure, the Polyteehnique, 

 the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Sci- 

 ences, and the School of Pharmacy. 



It was a chosen assemblage, wrought to the 

 highest pitch of enthusiasm, and comprising 

 representatives of all that was best in art and 

 science and intellectual thought. At half-past 



