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develop to a worthy home of the natural sciences, I 
wish from all my heart. 
“Yours truly, 
* “Dr. OscAR HERTWIG.”’ 
UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, 
GERMANY. 
‘“T express my interest in the erection of your in- 
stitute. Its creation will be a new proof of the suc- 
cessful zeal with which the younger school of your 
country is occupied to further scientific progress in 
unconfined research, as well as in the dissemination 
of knowledge. With the most respectful greetings, 
“Yours truly, 
“WILLIAM HIs.”’ 
UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG, 
GERMANY. 
“You may perhaps be surprised to hear that I 
passed two very happy years of my boyhood in Hart- 
ford, attendiug the high school, and that I still count 
among my best friends a number of Hartford people. 
You may, therefore, imagine with what satisfaction I 
learned that in the city with which my personal re- 
lations, so to speak, are very intimate, a hall has 
been established in which the subjects in my own 
special lines are to be studied. I congratulate the 
city, the College and you on the completion of the 
Hall of Natural History, and hope that it will become 
a center of scientific activities and will do its full 
share in the advancement of knowledge, as it no 
doubt will. With best wishes, I remain 
“Yours sincerely, 
“KK. MITSUKURI.”’ 
IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, 
TOKIO, JAPAN, 
““T have much pleasure in sending you my best 
wishes for the new Hall of Natural History at Trinity 
College, Hartford. May it have a long, useful and 
prosperous career. May it train many men to do 
good and honest work in natural history, that most 
delightful of the sciences, and may financial blight— 
that curse of so many scientific undertakings, never 
fall upon it! I much regret that I cannot myself be 
present on the occasion to offer my congratulations in 
person. 
“Tt is now exactly a quarter of a century since I 
began the study of Natural History under that bril- 
liant zoologist, that truly great and distinguished 
man, Francis Maitland Balfour. The lessons I learnt 
from him I would fain teach to others, and it has 
always been my endeayor to do so. The most im- 
portant of them were—thoroughness and honesty in 
work, the realization of the fact that no scientific 
work is worth doing unless it be done primarily for 
(N.S. Vou. XII. No. 315. 
the sake of the work, and not primarily for the sake 
of the worker. The realization of this fact is the most 
important result which a sound education can pro- 
duce. 
“T cannot wish you anything better than this— 
that the work done in your institution may be honest 
work, sound work, work which men of all countries 
and all languages who are seeking after truth may 
turn to with confidence, that there at least they will 
find the real thing—an honest record of painstaking 
observation. 
“In other words, may your institution be the 
means of training men to work like Johannes Miiller, 
Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Albert Kol- 
liker, Elias Metschnikoff and Francis Maitland Bal- 
four. Iam, dear sir, 
“Yours sincerely, 
‘“ ADAM SEDGWICK.”’ 
READER IN MORPHOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY OF 
ANIMALS, TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF 
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND. 
‘‘T pledge you my sincerest wishes for the new Hall 
of Natural History of Trinity College. May it take 
its place in contributing to the greatest researches 
which the United States have produced in the Jast 
decennium for our sciences, and which have stirred 
up the admiration, yes, I may say, the envy of the 
entire Old World. With this wish, I remain, in 
greatest esteem, 
‘ “Yours truly, 
““Dr. J. W. SPENGEL.’’ 
UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN, 
GERMANY. 
“J express my admiration and forcible acknowledg- 
ment of how zealous your countrymen in the great 
country of the United States are to further science in 
every direction ; I wish Trinity College and especially 
its scientific institutes the greatest success and de- 
velopment. 
“Most respectfully yours, 
““WALDEYER.’? 
UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN, 
GERMANY. 
““ Kindly accept my wishes for the success of this 
solemnity and for the ever progressive development 
of the knowledge of truth, as well as of the spirit of 
research in your university. 
““T beg you, sir and your colleagues, to accept the 
expression of my cordial appreciation. 
“EMILE YUNG.”? 
PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY AND OF COMPARATIVE 
ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, 
SWITZERLAND. 
