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insolation, which is for the preceding day. 

 For the study of the centers of action, the 

 monthly means of observations are to be 

 sent by the cooperating institutes to the 

 president of the commission, but for the 

 other system of stations the observations 

 are to be telegraphed every day, or, if this 

 is impossible, the weekly means can be tele- 

 graphed and, like the daily observations, 

 published in the weather bulletins of the 

 respective countries where they will be 

 available for stiidy. 



Although the week was chiefly occupied 

 with the scientific sessions, the prince enter- 

 tained members of the commissions several 

 times at the palace and on his yacht, the 

 Princesse- Alice, where he himself partici- 

 pated in some oceanographical investiga- 

 tions. These, as well as the aerological 

 work of the prince, were illustrated by an 

 evening lecture given by his aide-de-camp, 

 ]\I. Bouree. The little time remaining was 

 agreeably filled by a visit in automobiles 

 to the Nice Observatory and by a perform- 

 ance at the opera of Monte Carlo. To the 

 writer the prince expressed the desire that 

 with the completion of the Oeeanographic 

 Museum, the principality of Monaco should 

 be not only a pleasure resort, but also be- 

 come a scientific center, and the Aerolog- 

 ical Congress prove the precursor of meet- 

 ings of a similar nature there. 



A. Laweence Eotch 



Blue Hill Meteobological Obsehvatobt, 

 Hyde Pabk, Mass. 



THE DARWIN CENTENARY 



ADDRESS IN REPLY TO THE RECEPTION OP 



DELEGATES^ 



Crossing the Atlantic in honor of Darwin 

 and rejoicing in the privilege of uniting in 

 this celebration of his birth, we desire, first of 



'By Henry Fairfield Osborn, LL.D., Hon.D.Sc. 

 C'ainb., Da Costa Professor of Zoology, Columbia 

 University, President of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. 



all, to render our tribute to the University of 

 Cambridge. 



To no other institution in any country may 

 we turn with such a sense of filial gratitude. 

 Through John Harvard, of Emmanuel, Cam- 

 bridge became the mother of our colleges. 

 Did not Emmanuel beget Harvard, and Har- 

 vard beget Yale, and Yale beget Princeton 

 and other descendants to the third and fourth 

 generation? We thus salute to-day the vener- 

 able but ever-youthful ancestor of many of the 

 American universities, academies and insti- 

 tutes of science, national and state museums, 

 represented here, and in large part guided by 

 true sons of the true daughters of the alma 

 mater on the Cam. Through the survival of 

 the best, our political guidance is also passing 

 more and more into the hands of men trained 

 in these same daughter colleges. A son of 

 Yale succeeds a son of Harvard as president 

 of the United States. If your university men 

 are leading the empire in times of stress, ours 

 are leading the nation through the more 

 perilous, because more insiduous, times of 

 prosperity. Thus in ever-widening growth is 

 the influence of the Cambridge heritage. " Sir 

 Walter," remarked Queen Elizabeth, " I hear 

 that you have erected a Puritan foundation." 

 " No, madam," he replied, " far be it from me 

 to countenance anything contrary to your es- 

 tablished laws ; but I have set an acorn, which, 

 when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what 

 will be the fruit thereof." 



The other offspring of Emmanuel, of Trin- 

 ity, of Christ's and of the many pious founda- 

 tions of the old university, are the great men, 

 too numerous to name, but among whom 

 there especially rise in our minds Newton, 

 Clerk-Maxwell, Balfour, and above all, Dar- 

 win. Newton opened to us the new heavens, 

 and Darwin the new earth. Clerk-Maxwell, 

 with Herz, enabled us to converse with you 

 through the blue ether. The well-beloved Bal- 

 four revived the spirit of Von Baer; would 

 that his life bad been spared for the more 

 difficult problems of our day. If in our hours 

 of struggle with the mysteries of nature these 

 are our leaders and companions, so in our 

 hours of ease and relaxation do we not turn 



