of Edinburgh , Session 1876 - 77 . 52 £> 
crowded by twelve o’clock with an audience of about 4000, for the 
concert given by the celebrated choir of the students. The mem- 
bership of the choir is limited to 500, and as all in Sweden are taught 
music in the elementary and secondary schools, and as it is re- 
garded an object of ambition to be admitted a member, there is 
no difficulty in maintaining the choir in a state of the highest 
efficiency. On this, as on other high occasions, old members 
wearing the little rosette of membership were permitted to join the 
choir. It is enough to say that the concert was a very fine one, and 
it may be added that a degree of excellence was achieved which no 
existing university choir could rival. The pieces selected for the 
concert were essentially Scandinavian, and were remarkable for the 
strong patriotism and inextinguishable love of freedom which 
breathed through them, and for a desire for union among the three 
Scandinavian nations. In the evening the town gave a ball, at 
which the King, Crown Prince, and suite, and about 7000 guests 
were present in the hall in the Botanic Garden — a hall, by the way, 
which was levelled with the ground on the following day. 
By mid-afternoon of Saturday the guests had returned to Stock- 
holm, and at 6.30 p.m. they met at the pier to be conveyed by six 
steamers, specially engaged for the purpose, to Drottningholm Palace. 
Invitations to supper were issued by His Majesty to 700 guests. The 
magnificent rooms of this the stateliest of the summer palaces about 
Stockholm were thrown open to the guests, the King freely and 
cordially mingling with the company, as he did during the whole of 
the festivities. After supper the foreign deputies were invited to 
meet His Majesty in one of the larger rooms, where, after a graceful 
speech, to which one of the deputies replied, the King touched 
glasses, and shook hands with many of the deputies, and bade a 
cordial good-bye to all. The grounds of the palace were finely 
illuminated. 
Thus worthily terminated the commemoration solemnities of the 
400th anniversary of the founding of Upsala University, the cele- 
bration and festivities being conducted in a manner and with a 
munificence of which Upsala and Sweden may well be proud. 
The Latin Address above referred to, which was presented by the 
Deputation, is as follows : — 
