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impress upon the studies in geology than any other men who 

 have been within the confines of this State. I refer, of 

 course, to Dr. G. C. Swallow and Dr. B. F. Shumard. I 

 think I can say confidently and with authority that one who 

 travels over the State of Missouri to-day cannot but have the 

 hit^hest reo-ard for the work which these men did in the early 

 days. It is complete and accurate; their observations were 

 ffood, and their conclusions vv^ere excellent; and I think 

 that we owe a very great debt of gratitude, not only to these 

 gentlemen personally, but to the St. Louis Academy, from 

 which they undoubtedly derived a very great stimulus in their 

 work. 



On behalf of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts 

 and Letters, and of the Missouri Bureau of Geology and 

 Mines, I extend to you most cordial greetings. I thank you 

 for the privilege of making this short address at the banquet 

 which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding 

 of your society. 



The Toastmaster : — 



One of our own members represents the International 

 Association of Botanists and the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica, — Dr. Hermann von Schrenk. 



Dr. von Schrenk: — 



It gives me a great deal of pleasure to present to you on 

 this anniversary occasion the very best wishes and heartiest 

 greetings of the Association Internationale des Botanistes, 

 and the Botanical Society of America. Both of these organ- 

 izations, when compared with the St. Louis Academy of 

 Science, are young in years, but the expressions of felicitation 

 which they bring to you are none the less cordial. 



There are many thoughts which I would like to express in 

 the name of the botanists, but there is one in particular which 

 I wish to say a few words about. I have oftentimes thought 

 that organizations of specialists, such as the ones which I 

 have the honor to represent this evening, owe a debt of grat- 

 itude to the organizers of societies such as the St. Louis 



