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the Society, M. Quatrefage, and M. Daubree, members of the 
Institute, not to forget many other Frenchmen and Scandi¬ 
navians. Among the fltes of Paris I must confine myself to 
an enumeration of the principal ones. 
Friday, the 2nd April. Public stance de rSception by the 
Geographical Society in the Cirque des Champs Elysee in the 
presence of a very large and select audience. Admiral La 
Ronciere delivered the speech on this occasion, which I 
replied to by giving a pretty full account of the Swedish 
Arctic expeditions, on which the President handed me the 
large gold medal of the Society “as a proof of the interest 
which the public and the geographers of France take in the 
voyage of the Vega!' Dined the same day with the Swedish- 
Norwegian minister, SiBBERN. —Saturday the 3rd. Invitation 
to a festive meeting of delegates from twenty-eight learned 
societies in France in the amphitheatre of the Sorbonne.^ We 
were greeted by the Minister of Education in a masterly and 
eloquent speech, after which he conferred upon us, on the part 
of the Republic, Commander’s and Officer’s Insignia of the 
French Legion of Honour. “A reward,” as the Minister of the 
Repiiblic expressed himself, “ for the blood of the brave and 
the sleepless nights of the learned.” After that an official 
dinner and reception by M. Jules Ferry.—-On Sunday the 4th, 
an address was presented from the Scandinavian Union, under 
the presidency of Herr Fortmeijer. In the evening a brilliant 
entertainment on a large scale given by the Scandinavian 
Union in the Hotel Continental. Among those j^resent may 
be mentioned Prince OsCAR of Sweden, the President of the 
FUe Committee, Herr Jensen, Fru Kristina Nilson-Rouzeaud 
the Danish minister, the Swedish embassy, members of the 
Russian embassy, a large number of Scandinavian artists, many 
i These are enumerated in the Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, Mai, 
1880, p. 463. In the same part (p. 450) there is also a report of the 
speeches made at the seance de reception. 
