The nobility of the country, foreign princes, and foreign ambassadors, were present.

It was gratifying to observe the princes of the blood mingling with the cultivators of science, and to see the heir-apparent to the throne, during the course of the evening, engaged in conversation with those most celebrated for their talents, of his own, or of other countries.
Nor were the minor arrangements of the evening beneath the consideration of the President.

The words of the music selected for the concert, were printed and distributed to the visitors.

The names of the most illustrious philosophers which Germany had produced, were inscribed in letters of gold at the end of the great concert room.
In the first rank amongst these stood a name which, England, too, enrolls amongst the brightest in her scientific annals; and proud, as well she may be, of having fostered and brought to maturity the genius of the first Herschel, she has reaped an ample reward in being able to claim as entirely her own, the inheritor of his talents and his name.
The six succeeding days were occupied, in the morning, by a meeting of the academy, at which papers of general interest were read.

In the afternoon, through the arrangement of M.de Humboldt and M.
Lichtenstein, various rooms were appropriated for different sections of the academy.