98 FIFTH GENERAL MEETING. 



utility, supposing there was anything useful in what they professed 

 to teach and do. Now having done with that, he wished to express 

 his gratification at the great success, as he thought one might say, 

 of the present Congress, and he could hardly say to whom it was 

 really due. He knew how indefatigably the secretaries and others 

 had worked, and how admirably they had made their arrangements, 

 but they would be the subject, he understood, of a subsequent 

 resolution. He knew he could speak for the Vice-Chancellor, that 

 he had taken from the first the greatest possible interest in the 

 Congress, and had been most kind in making his arrangements fit 

 in with theirs. (Applause.) 



The President proposed a vote of thanks to the Mayor and 

 Corporation. Prof. Milne-Edwards (France) seconded the pro- 

 position, which was supported by Prof MOBIUS (Germany) and 

 Prof von Graff (Austria), and carried with acclamation. 



The Mayor in reply said the Corporation of Cambridge, through 

 him, thanked them for the very kind expression which they had 

 given voice to that morning. He had had the good fortune to 

 attend some of their meetings, but he was sorry to say he had 

 given more attention to the social gatherings which they had been 

 enjoying than the deliberations which they had had in the hall. 

 But those social gatherings he had extremely enjoyed. He heard 

 frequent mention of the great men which. Cambridge had produced, 

 but it would not be fair if the proceedings were to pass unless he 

 told them one other fact which he had not mentioned in their 

 midst, and that was Cambridge had had the honour during last 

 year of having at the head of the Corporation a son of him whom 

 they all loved, viz. Charles Darwin. He wished it had fallen to 

 Mr Darwin's lot to occupy this year the place which he had the 

 honour to occupy and receive the Congress. Cambridge felt it an 

 honour that it should have been chosen for a meeting of so many 

 distinguished men from all parts of the world. It might be that 

 he was engaged more in civil government than in the pursuits in 

 which they were engaged, but he drew one very valuable lesson 

 from the meeting which they had had in Cambridge, and that was 

 in reference to the cordiality and the amiability which existed 

 between all countries of the world. It was a very valuable lesson 

 to this country that gentlemen from all parts of the world could 

 meet on such friendly terms, and the repetition of such meetings, as 

 the President had said, must conduce to the happiness and pros- 

 perity of all. 



After passing a vote of thanks to the President, Secretaries and 

 other officers on the motion of Prof YvES Delage (Paris), seconded 

 by Prof Plate (Berlin), 



