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which it is hoped that all the affiliated 

 societies will unite so that the men of 

 science of the . whole country may be 

 brought together and the importance 

 and magnitude of their scientific work 

 may serve as a stimulus to them and 

 an impressive lesson to the general 

 public. 



THE ADDRESS OF THE PRESI-l 

 DENT 



In his presidential address before the 

 association Professor Pickering stated j 

 that American universities and colleges 

 detoted a hundred times as much time 

 and money to diffusing human knowl- 



edge as to the object of the American 

 Association of Science. The greatest 

 need of science at the present time is 

 the means for aiding the real men of 

 genius. 



The first catalogue of the stars was 

 made by Hipparchus two thousand 

 years ago. A thousand years later it 

 was revised by a Persian astronomer 

 Sufi. They show uot only that the posi- 

 tions and brightness of the stars have 

 changed but little in two thousand 

 years, but that the same may be said of 

 the sensitiveness of the human eye to. 

 lights of different colors. The places of 

 the stars were first accurately deter- 



Dr. P. P. Claxton, 

 Vice-president for Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education. 



