EDITORIAL 821 
After the celebration in London the visitors in two groups were 
entertained most hospitably by the Universities of Cambridge and 
Oxford, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred 
upon a number of the most distinguished Europeans: from Germany, 
Professor Ferdinand Zirkel and Professor Hermann Credner of Leipzig, 
Professor A. Penck of Berlin, and it was known that Professor Rosen- 
busch of Heidelberg would have received the degree had he been 
able to be present; from France, Professor Charles Barrois of 
Lille, Professor A. Lacroix and Professor A. de Lapparent of Paris; 
from Norway, Professor W. C. Brégger and Dr. Hans Reusch of 
Christiania; from Sweden, Professor A. G. Nathorst of Stockholm; 
from Switzerland, Professor A. Heim of Zurich; and from Belgium, 
Professor Louis Dollo of Brussels. That no honor was conferred 
at this time upon any geologist of the English-speaking peoples of 
America or of the British Colonies is remarkable, considering the 
quality and amount of work done by the older and ablest geologists in 
these vast territories. We trust that this inaction on the part of the 
great English Universities will not be misinterpreted as a lack of 
appreciation on their part of the attainments of the most distinguished 
of Colonial and American geologists, but will be attributed to causes 
not at present understood by those outside the Universities’ councils. 
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