After other speeches Sir Henry Lefroy presented Lieutenant Greely with the
following informal address:
"Montreal, Sept. 2, 1884.
"The undersigned, on behalf of many warm friends and admirers, and
as representing various professional and scientific pursuits,
desire to express to you their appreciation of the courage and
devotion which has characterized your conduct during the trying
circumstances of your late Arctic service. We trust that your
health may soon be restored, and that you may long be spared to
tender, as during your past distinguished career, those valuable
and distinguished services to your great country which have already
placed you among the foremost of scientific explorers of the age.
"Yours faithfully, Rayleigh, President."
In introducing Lieut. Greely, Sir Henry Lefroy, referring to the
persistence of purpose shown by his party in bringing back the pendulum
apparatus, remarked that there was nothing nobler in the annals of
scientific heroism than the determination of these hungry men to drag the
cumbersome box along their weary way.
It was fully two minutes after rising before Lieut. Greely could speak, so
great was the outburst of enthusiasm which greeted him.
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