JANUARY 11, 1901.] 
““Moreover, there can be no doubt of this success, 
for fyou will display there, you, your associates in 
labor and your pupils, the remarkable qualities of 
your race, and you will be with us in the vanguard in 
the great battle that we are fighting without truce for 
the discovery of the truth, a noble conflict in which 
all the combatants participate in the advantages of 
victory, and which causes to flow neither blood nor 
tears. 
“YVES DELAGE.’’ 
PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE 
ANATOMY, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, FRANCE. 
“T wish your new Hall of Natural History the very 
best success. I am 
“‘Yours very respectfully, 
“PROFESSOR DR. ANTON DOHRN.”’ 
ZOOLOGICAL STATION, 
NAPLES, ITALY. 
“‘T send you my best wishes for the opening of your 
new Natural History Institute in Trinity College, and 
hope it will bring to maturity many advances in the 
investigation of the grand treasures of Nature of your 
beautiful country, which I had the pieasure of become 
ing acquainted with last year. With greatest esteem, 
f* Yours truly, 
PROFESSOR D. A. FOREL.”’ 
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND. 
“‘Thank you yery much for the sending of your 
program of instruction, which I have read with the 
greatestinterest. I congratulate you upon the problem 
which you have set for yourself; that zoology and 
anatomy can only gain when they are permeated by 
physiological and general biological principles, is, 
alas, not yet recognized to any extent. Only in 
botany is recognized the natural union of form and 
function in teaching, and there but to a slight degree; 
this has found expression in the splendid book of 
Haberlandt, ‘Physiological Anatomy.’ Mineralogy 
and geology in Zurich have undergone a similar 
process. 
‘Mo the anatomist and zoologist on the contrary, 
the comparative method is allowed, and the.so-called 
‘purely mechanical’ points of view are repudiated. 
“‘Yours-truly, : 
““MAX VON FREY.”’ 
UNIVERSITY OF WURZBURG,% 
GERMANY. 
‘May the Hall of Natural History be a complete 
success—fulfilling all the aspirations of its founders 
and well-wishers! Had it been possible it would 
have afforded me much pleasure and satisfaction to 
have been present at your opening function. All I 
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can do now is to wish the institution and yourself 
Godspeed! 
““Yours very truly, 
“ JAMES GEIKIE.’! 
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, 
ScorLaAND. 
‘*T should have been happy to express personally 
to you my great admiration for the powerful scientific 
movement taking place in the United States of Amer- 
ica, the proof of which is given by the erection of so 
many splendid universities. I send you my heartiest 
wishes that the Biological Laboratory of Hartford 
may soon produce numerous and excellent works in 
all branches of modern biology. Believe me, dear 
sir, 
‘‘ Yours very sincerely, 
“CA, GIARD.”’ 
MEMBRE DE L’INSTITUT DE 
FRANCE. 
“Tn reply to your invitation I wish to send, in my 
absence, a few words of hearty greeting on the occa- 
sion of the opening of your Hall of Natural History. 
I hold it an imperative duty of the minister of every 
denomination of religion to seek to understand the 
modes of thought of his flock.. And considering the 
way biological progress has influenced man’s way of 
looking at things generally, it seems to me that its 
study is one specially necessary for the ministry. 
The work of the churches or great social bond of 
union and progress in humanity is one we all recog- 
nize. That men anxious and willing to work for 
this end should have had their services unutilized in 
the past—the very recent past—through the lack of 
understanding of the theologians is a fact to be deeply 
regretted. And the new foundation in your college 
should make for charity in human fellowship, through 
and with the advancement of human knowledge. I 
am, gentlemen, 
“ Faithfully yours, 
“Marcus Hartzoc, D.Sc., M.D., F.L.S.”’ 
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL History, 
QUEEN’S COLLEGE, CORK, IRELAND. 
‘The natural sciences, and not in the least biology, 
have in a few decades developed remarkably in the 
United States; Proof of this are the newly founded, 
splendidly equipped universities, natural history 
museums, marine biological stations, and recently 
published journals, by means of which science has 
already experienced so many additions due to Amer- 
ican research. 
“That the newly erected ‘ Hall of Natural History 
of Trinity College,’ placed under your guidance, may 
