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April 9. 



MEETING 

 IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL GIBSON DIXON, M.D., LL.D., Sc.D. 



Edwin Grant Conklin, Ph.D., Sc.D., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Presiding Officer, in opening the meeting, remarked : 



We have met to commemorate the hfe and pubhc services of a 

 distinguished man, Samuel Gibson Dixon, who has passed forever 

 from our view, but whose influence and labors will remain long 

 after we also shall have joined the "great majority." Others who 

 knew him most intimately in the various phases of his many-sided 

 life and work will speak at length of his services to science, to the 

 State and to this Academy, but as one who was associated with him 

 for many years in the Council of the society, I cannot refrain 

 from calling attention to the many evidences of his ability and 

 foresight which are all around us. This very hall in which we are 

 meeting we owe to his activities. The Academy had a great history 

 when Dr. Dixon became its President. It had great collections, 

 an unexcelled library, a distinguished scientific staff, and a national 

 and international reputation in science, but it was inadequately 

 housed and endowed. With great energy and ability Dr. Dixon 

 set himself to the task of providing a suitable home and a larger 

 endowment for the institution. Contrast the old building with the 

 present group of buildings, the old Library Hall with this cheerful 

 and inspiring one, the old accommodations for the scientific staff with 

 their present work-rooms and laboratories. We might truly write 

 on his memorial tablet, "He found the Academy crumbling 

 serpentine and left it enduring steel and stone." 



Dr. Conklin then presented the Hon. John Cadwalader, Vice- 

 President of the Academy; Witmer Stone, Sc.D., and B. Franklin 

 Royer, M.D., who made the following addresses: — 



