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try to the city, each municipality ought to possess extensive 

 open fields, not merely as breathing-places for the poor, 

 but to afford to the exiles from the country, fresh glimpses 

 of the beautiful serenity and charm of the country world 

 which they have voluntarily abandoned. It was the noblest 

 sort of socialism which led Henry Shaw to present these 

 gifts of fresh air and green leaves to his fellow citizens 

 of St. Louis. 



Now I close as I began, by tendering the heartiest con- 

 gratulations on the part of my associates and myself, on 

 account of this rapid development, which has not been too 

 rapid, and on account of this symmetrical development, 

 which has indeed kept everything well balanced. We offer 

 in a spirit of pride for American science our sincerest 

 congratulations for the present and the past, and our best 

 wishes for the future. 



It is more than a quarter of a century since I paid my 

 last visit to St. Louis. The complete transformation which 

 has taken place within your city limits during that time, 

 renders it impossible to predict what any visitor to your 

 city will see twenty-five years from now. The cordiality of 

 your present reception makes me look forward with pleas- 

 urable anticipations to my next visit then. 



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Professor Goodale was followed by Professor Asaph 

 Hall, of the Naval Observatory; General J. W. Noble, 

 late Secretary of the Interior ; Professor T. C. Chamber- 

 lin, head of the Geological Department of the University 

 of Chicago, and late President of the University of Wis- 

 consin; Professor T. C. Mendenhall, Superintendent of 

 the United States Coast Survey; Dr. C. O. Whitman, head 



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of the Biological Department of the University of Chicago 

 and Director of the Marine Biological Labaratory at 

 Wood's Holl; Dr. H. T. Eddy, President of the Eose Poly- 

 technic Institute, and Chancellor W. S. Chaplin, of Wash- 

 ington University, who made short speeches, appropriate 

 to the occasion. 



