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such work. Hence the commendable eagerness of the modern public 

 to learn the results of recondite researches calls for some sort of 

 cooperation between the Institution and existing media for the dis- 

 semination of information, with a view to furnishing such informa- 

 tion in a form at once intelligible and trustworthy. This, among 

 many other questions concerning the relations of the Institution to 

 the general public, seems to merit special consideration in the near 

 future. 



Attention may be not inappropriately called here to the fact that 

 while the Institution deeply appreciates the interest in its affairs 

 shown by the public, there is no possibility of following more than 

 a small fraction of the suggestion and the advice welcomed from that 

 source, for their abundance is overwhelming and a choice must be 

 made. Out of the chaos of such suggestion and advice and out of 

 the deliberations within the Institution itself, ways and means for 

 growth and achievement will be found. In the meantime there will 

 be a common need for application of the forbearance and the patience 

 so indispensable to the higher forms of research which it is the object 

 of the Institution to promote. 



November ii, 1905. 



