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dress, of which he had written so many, and which were always 

 animated with such a devoted ardor for the benefit of his beloved 

 Academy. They were plain documents in terse language, and, 

 like all his other writings, prepared without any desire to exalt 

 the actual condition of things, or to exaggerate the prospects of 

 the association. In his address of 1867 he elucidates the condi- 

 tion of the Academy, its past efforts for recognition among its 

 fellow-citizens, and its actual success with the scientific commu- 

 nities in general, as follows : 



" If we have not succeeded as well as eleven years ago some 

 of us may have fondly hoped we should or could do ; if we have 

 not raised a palace to science and filled it with the natural pro- 

 ductions of our own and other countries ; if we have not issued 

 volumes and volumes of scientific discoveries to enlighten the 

 world, — we have done more than could reasonably be expected 

 from so small a number of active men, who had only a few hours 

 left to them by professional or business avocations to their scien- 

 tific labors ; and whose financial means, not aided by heavy men 

 of our city, scarcely enabled them to hold together and preserve 

 what they had accumulated of scientific treasures, and to publish 

 in modest pages the results of their researches and explorations. 

 Yes, it fills us with satisfaction and with pride to see that we have 

 been able to gather together such a museum as we possess in the 

 large hall, to accumulate that highly valuable library which you 

 see in the adjoining room, and to proclaim to the scientific world 

 through six numbers of our publications, that out here, on the 

 banks of the Mississippi, here in this vast community of business 

 men, some at least find inclination and leisure to prosecute the 

 more abstract but none the less important and useful study of 

 science." 



This is a fair specimen of the praises he used to bestow upon 

 friends — the exhortations he considered necessary to hold up 

 to such persons as ought to have appeared and assisted materi- 



