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wealthy institution of its kind in the world. I had thought 

 of saying that if any one felt the spirit to move him to an- 

 nounce such a gift here, he may feel free to do so. This 

 indeed might be done at any time, without being considered a 

 breach of the peace. 



addresses of delegates. 



The Toastmaster : — 



We have with us this evening the President of another 

 Academy of Science, the Academy of Science of Chicago. 

 Professor T. C. Chamberlin will represent that Academy in 

 an address. In view of the experience I have already had, it 

 is rash to predict what he will say. I did think I knew, but 

 I will let him tell what the subject is. 



Dr. Chamberlin: — 



Members and Friends of the Academy of St. Louis : — It 

 is a very great pleasure to me, Mr. Chairman, to bring to you 

 the warm congratulations of the sister Academy by the lake. 

 That Academy came very near to being a twin sister of your 

 Academy. It was born only about ten months later. I be- 

 lieve the Academy of St. Louis is the senior institution of its 

 class in the interior of this country, and so I suppose it is safe 

 for us to claim that the Academy of Chicago is second on the 

 list. It is a good deal for a Chicago man to admit that we 

 are second in anything, but as a scientific man I am compelled 

 to bow to the facts. 



The Academy of Chicago remembers with peculiar pleasure 

 and gratitude the sympathy and assistance of this Academy 

 after our great fire. You not only furnished us a new set of 

 the proceedings of this Academy, but generously resupplied 

 us with valuable material which had been lost, and rendered 

 such additional aid as was in your power. 



The history of these two institutions represents typically 

 the successive phases through which the Academies of the in- 

 terior have been passing, and their present conditions and 

 lines of effort perhaps foreshadow the history of these and 

 like Academies in the immediate future. As your Chairman 



