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face to face the members of your body who are makers of 

 knowledge and hence of human progress. Long may the 

 Academy live; many be its anniversaries; and ever be 

 its success the pride of Saint Louis and the boast of Mis- 

 souri: may the history and example of the organization as 

 related and displayed tonight be handed down from gener- 

 ation to veneration to the credit and renown of Science ! I 

 congratulate you, and in the language of my ancestors I 

 greet you 



" Slainte doibh uille.^^ * 



Mr. Hurter: — 



Gentlemen, Members of The Academy of Science of St. 

 Louis and Honorable Guests : — In addressing you to-night I 

 do so, not as a member of the Academy, but as a delegate of 

 the Naturalists' Club of St. Louis. The Club has honored 

 me as the bearer of heartiest sympathies and good wishes 

 towards the Academy of Science. We not only appreciate 

 what the Academy has achieved in the past fifty years, 

 but we hope that in the next half century the Academy will 

 grow to be a much larger body so as to be enabled to carry 

 the results of scientific research and exploration into wider 

 and wider fields. I can assure the Academy that the Natural- 

 ists' Club will always work hand in hand with the members 

 of the Academy of Science to its fullest extent and we hope 

 that in the next fifty years the sympathies which unite the 

 two organizations may become very close, founded upon the 

 same love for scientific studies. 



Professor Coulter : — 



The Biological Society of Saint Louis, probably the youngest 

 scientific society represented here to-night, desires to present 

 its congratulations to the oldest, the Academy of Science. 

 We sincerely hope that the long and useful career of the 

 Academy, a career whose influence has always been particu- 

 larly stimulating to younger societies like ours, may be 

 but the prophecy of a much longer and still more helpful 



* Health to you all. 



