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already possesses, to say nothing of the space needed for the 

 expected immediate rapid growth of the museum. 



I have said nothing about the need of a great aquarium in 

 this city in which may be shown the food and game fishes and 

 the myriads of other fishes and other Hfe of our rivers and 

 lakes and of the sea. Such an aquarium is sure to come. Now 

 is the opportune time seriously to consider its establishment. 

 The Academy of Sciences stands ready to render any service 

 it can in this matter. 



I have mentioned a few of the things which the California 

 Academy of Sciences ought to do and which it can do if it 

 receives the support from the public which it should receive. 

 There are many other scientific and educational activities in 

 which it will doubtless engage in due time. 



The total of the endowments and gifts needed by the 

 Academy is big. But the problems are big, and the educa- 

 tional, scientific, and material benefits that will come to San 

 Francisco and the entire Pacific coast will be of inestimable 

 value. 



Recently I compiled a statement showing the amounts given 

 by public spirited citizens of the United States for educational 

 and scientific aid and endowments as noted in the weekly 

 journal, Science, for the period from March to December, 

 1914. The total is nearly $77,000,000. Practically all of this 

 enormous amount was given by men and women in the east 

 and to museums and other educational institutions east of the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



No one believes that the men and women of wealth of the 

 west coast of America are less appreciative of science and the 

 educational value of the physical and biological sciences than 

 are the people of the east. It is believed, that, when the matter 

 is presented to them frankly and clearly, they will come for- 

 ward and enable the Museum of the California Academy of 

 Sciences to take rank with the greatest museums of the east. 



There is one other matter to which I wish to call particular 

 attention at this time. It is this : The new Museum should 

 contain a Children's Room in which will be displayed natural 

 history objects such as are particularly attractive and interest- 

 ing to young children. There would be in this room brightly 

 and curiously colored birds and butterflies, moths and beetles 



