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each more or less scientific work is done, much of it of good 

 quality. The proceedings open an avenue for publication. 

 It seems to me it is far better to publish in such proceedings 

 than to have separate publications from each institution. 



I have not the time, nor would you have the patience to 

 listen to a re'sume of what the Iowa Academy has done for 

 science in the State, but I may say truthfully that its pro- 

 ceedings compare very favorably with those published by 

 other States. The topics cover a wide range of the sciences 

 of geology, zoology, botany, physics and chemistry. Its 

 best work has, however, been done in promoting a good fel- 

 lowship among the scientific workers of the State, and in pro- 

 moting the geological and natural history survey of the State, 

 helping along the cause of pure food legislation, and assisting 

 in the cause of national and local forest legislation, also in 

 stimulating a healthy growth of science teaching in our public 

 schools. We hope, too, that it may be our pleasure to cele- 

 brate our fifty year existence in the future, and that we shall 

 have accomplished as much as the St. Louis Academy. 



It is our wish also that the St. Louis Academy may con- 

 tinue to cover the whole range of sciences, and that for the 

 publication of scientific achievements it may reach out as it 

 has in the past, for good papers in all parts of the United 

 States. That is its sphere. It is our hope and wish that 

 some liberal citizen of St. Louis will help the good cause 

 along. 



The St. Louis Academy needs an endowment as large as 

 that of the Davenport Academy and larger, to carrj^ on its 

 sood work. St. Louis is large enough and rich enough to 

 make an endowment of a million dollars at once to further the 

 interests of the Academy and place it forever on a permanent 

 basis. This is important also because the Academy bears a 

 definite relation to the scientific work of St. Louis and espe- 

 cially the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



The To astm aster : — 



We have a representative of the Philosophical Society of 

 Washington, and the National Geographic Society, WJ McGee. 



