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Centennial Anniversary. 



Academy, but at the same time was far enough removed to 

 escape occupation. 



In the absence of his Excellency the Governor of Connecticut, 

 who had official engagements elsewhere, the Lieutenant Governor, 

 Hon. Lyman A. Mills, welcomed the Academy and its guests in 

 the name of the State. 



The addresses of the occasion, by the President of the Academy 

 and two of its honored members, are printed in the pages that 

 follow. Both to Judge Baldwin, of the Supreme Court of Con- 

 necticut, who drew so faithful a picture of the Academy ? s past, 

 setting it in just relation to its environment and making even its 

 more humble details attractive, and to Professor Rice, of Wes- 

 leyan University, who so admirably outlined the course of scien- 

 tific thought in the nineteenth century, the Academy is under 

 great obligation for the service rendered. 



The cordial greetings received from the correspondents of the 

 Academy at home and abroad, conveying congratulations on the 

 work achieved in the past and good wishes for the future, added 

 much to the interest of the occasion. Their number and wide 

 distribution, as shown in the subjoined list, bear witness to the 

 sympathy which in this age unites the workers in science of all 

 lands. 



Johns Hopkins University, 



Boston Society of Natural History, 



Harvard Universitv, 



Field Columbian Museum, 



Connecticut Historical Society, 



Trinity College, .... 



State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 



Wesleyan University, 



New London County Historical Society, 



Linnean Society of New York, 



New York Academy of Sciences, . 



American Philosophical Society, 



Franklin Institute, 



Pennsylvania Historical Society, 



Missouri Botanical Garden, 



Academy of Science, 



Essex Institute, .... 



Georgia Historical Society, 



Smithsonian Institution, 



United States Naval Observatory, . 



Baltimore. 



Boston. 



Cambridge. 



Chicago. 



Hartford. 



Hartford. 



Madison. 



Middletown. 



New London. 



New York. 



New York. 



Philadelphia. 



Philadelphia. 



Philadelphia. 



St. Louis. 



St. Louis. 



Salem. 



Savannah. 



Washington. 



Washington. 



