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THE READING

FROM THE

LETTERS OF FOREIGN SCHOLARS CONCERNING PROFESSOR WHITNEY.


A LARGE and distinguished assembly having met at eight o'clock in the University Library, President Gilman took the chair. The exercises began with the reading by Professor Lyon, in the original English or in English translation, of extracts from letters concerning Professor Whitney which had been received from various foreign scholars. The original text of these letters is given below in full, pages 67 to 105.