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Lind hochverehrten Prasidenten Sir John Lubbock, wir verdanken 

 es den Herren der Comites, die ihre Arbeit und Zeit in den 

 Dienst des Congresses gestellt haben. Vor allem aber danken wir 

 es dem klassischen Boden auf dem wir stehen — auf dem Darwin 

 und Balfour wandelten — , der Luft, die wir einathmen, dem Geist 

 freier Forschung, der uns umweht — mit einem Wort, der altehrwUr- 

 digen Universitat Cambridge. 



Sie offnete uns weit und in warmer Gastfreundschaft die Thore 

 ihrer Colleges ; aus diesen Thoren ziehen wir hcute nur ungern 

 aus ; ein Stlick unseres Herzens bleibt zurlick. 



Cambridges Universitat mochte ich vergleichen mit jenem 

 Maulbeerbaum Milton's, der im prachtigen Garten von Christ's 

 College steht. Gepflanzt vor Jahrhunderten durch die Hand eines 

 Dichters und Idealisten, die Rinde zerrissen, der Stamm knorrig, 

 doch jugendstark, — und jedes Friihjahr bringt neue Blatter und 

 Bliithen, und jeder Herbst streut reichen Segen neuer Friichte aus. 



Im Namen von ihnen alien rufe ich : 



Salve Universitas Cantabrigiensis ! 



Prof. Newton said that it was his duty, in the absence of the 

 Vice-Chancellor, to return thanks on behalf of the University for 

 the very kind way in which it had been spoken of, not only by the 

 President, but by others after him. He need not say that to speak 

 in the name of the University was a very serious responsibility. 

 In respect of Zoology it had very ancient associations, and had 

 acquired a reputation to which it was very difficult to live up. Of 

 old times besides William Turner whom he had mentioned on a 

 former occasion, there were Ray and Willughby. As regarded 

 the biological school it had been continued through a long line of 

 men. In the early part of this century it had been conducted by 

 men like the elder Sedgwick, Professor Henslow and the late 

 Professor William Clark. Henslow's line was especially botany, 

 and Sedgwick's emphatically geology, yet both of them had a 

 very strong sympathy with everything that was Zoological. The 

 Zoological school of Cambridge was founded by these men, and 

 especially by William Clark. Then they had men like Leonard 

 Jenyns and Vernon Wollaston who, each in his own way, had done 

 excellent work, while two others bore the greatest names that could 

 in the present century be associated with Zoological Science — 

 Charles Darwin and Francis Balfour. The school therefore had 

 flourished, and moreover was still flourishing, notwithstanding, and 

 perhaps in spite of, the healthy rivalry, which was at times intense, 

 of the physiological school, recently founded alongside of it. In 

 some respects the ways of physiologists were not as their ways, the 

 thoughts of physiologists were not as their thoughts, and they had 

 had in them friendly enemies to oppose. It was that healthy 

 rivalry which he thought had added very much indeed to their 



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