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THE Fourth International Congress of Zoology which opened at Cambridge on Tuesday mornirig, August 23, promises to be the most successful meeting yet held. This is the first occasion that the Congress has met in England, and the proportion of English members assembled to extend a welcome to the foreign zoologists is, as it should be, considerable. The Congress is a triennial one, and has already met at Paris, Moscow and Leyden. The increasing popularity with which the meetings are regarded by zoologists may be gauged by the progressive increase in the number of members, attending. Only sixty members were present at the Paris Congress in 1889, 120 at Moscow, and 200 at Leyden; the number participating at the present meeting has already exceeded 280. Among the distinguished visitors present are Dr. Anton Dohrn (Naples), Prof. E. Ehlers (Göttingen), Prof. L. von Graff (Graz), Prof. Haeckel (Jena), Prof. E. L. Mark (Cambridge, Mass.), Prof. O. C. Marsh (New Haven), Prof. A. Milne-Edwards (Paris), Prof. K. Mitsukuri (Tokyo), Prof. Ramsay-Wright (Toronto), Prof. W. Salensky (St. Petersburg), Prof. F. E. Schulze (Berlin), and Prof. J. W. Spengel (Giessen). Much disappointment is felt at the absence through ill health of Prof. Carus, Prof. Ray Lankester and Sir William Flower. Sir William Flower, it will be remembered, was, at the conclusion of the Leyden Congress in 1895, made President-Elect for this Cambridge meeting; but he relinquished the presidency in favour of Sir John Lubbock, in the early part of the present year, on account of failing health. Sir John Lubbock opened the Congress on Tuesday morning by a short address, which is here printed in full. The members of the Congress who arrived at Cambridge on Monday evening were received at the Guildhall by the Mayor of Cambridge and by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, who, in a short speech begun in English, continued in German, and concluded in French, welcomed the visitors and expressed the best wishes of the town and the University for the success of the meeting. The following is the President's address:—
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International Congress of Zoologists. Nature 58, 390–392 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058390g0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058390g0