THE SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY OF HERMANN STREBEL. 59 



Association. Because of his scientific iliiportance, and no less on 

 account of his simple, straightforward nature, the people of Hamburg 

 have been accustomed for years to look up to him as the senior 

 member of the circle of naturalists. Very hearty and memorable 

 expression was given to this esteem on his seventieth birthday, which 

 was celebrated on January ist this year. In the forenoon Dr. 

 Melle appeared to present congratulations from the Senate, the School 

 Authority and the Managing Committee of the Ethnological Museum. 

 After him Dr. Wilhelm Spengel brought a diploma conferring on Mr. 

 Strebel the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy in the University 

 of Giessen. Diplomas and congratulations were received from a large 

 number of other learned societies, the list of these runs as follows : — 

 Leipziger Museum fiir Volkerkunde; the Anthropological Society, 

 Washington; Sociedad cientifica "Antonio Alzate" in Mexico; Society 

 of Naturalists in Basle; Societe des Americanistes de Paris; the 

 Conchological Society, England; the Anthropological Societies of 

 Berlin and Vienna; and the Malacological Society, London. Con- 

 gratulations were sent by the directors of the Museums in Berlin, 

 Paris, Cambridge, Stuttgart, Liibeck and Manchester, also by the chief 

 representatives of Ethnology and Malacology. 



In the evening Dr. Strebel's family and their nearest friends gathered 

 round a hospitable board. The toasts were, at first, of a somewhat 

 serious character, but a lighter tone was quickly introduced and 

 sustained by some poems specially written for the occasion by 

 Professors Seler, Schubert and Pfeiffer. 



The Society's address, for the text of which it is indebted to Mr. 

 Edward Fiddes, M.A., was as follows: — 



Hermanno Strebel 

 viro clarissimo atque doctissimo Societas Conchologica apud Britannos 

 Hibernosque instituta 



Salutem dat 

 In nomine societatis nostrae quae tanti gaudii doctonmi particeps esse 

 vult tibi vir venerande gratnlamur quod nunc annos septuaginta vitae tuae 

 complevisti. Quis enim ignorat te multa ad incrementum scientiae contu- 

 lisse, per multos annos per magnum laborem ad antiquilatem Mexicanam 

 animum intendentem ? Nee vero studia nostris siniillima a te aliena sunt. 

 Nam opera tua de conchis illius regionis, quae multas res antea obscuras 

 illustrarunt, notissima sunt nee dum cura de hac parte naturae apud doctos 

 manebit, tuum nomen ex memoria excidere patientur. Utinam per multos 

 annos per annos felices vivas valeas scientiam augeas. 



R. F. Scharff, Pneses. 

 Kal. Jan., A.s., MCMiv, Gulielmus E. Hoyle, Secretarius. 



To this the following reply has been received from Dr. Strebel : — 



