PROCEEDINGS 



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'I'hc ;mmi,-il s.'ssioii lor l.SSS convciu'd in llic ll:ill of the 

 "^'oiiiiU- M<'ir>^ Cliiistian Association, Dcs Moines, Iowa, on 

 Scplonihcr .")t!i. witli a I'nll attendance of the i-ecoo-nized 

 nionibershii* present. Aftei- the foi'inal indnction into the 

 ofHee of presick'nt of the president-elect, l*rof. Herbert 

 Osborn, of tlie Iowa A<jricnltnral ("oUeo-e, the Aeadeiiiy 

 listenofl to the foih>\vinu- annual address: 



LOCAL PROBLEMS IM SCIENCE. 



H^ I'KI SIKKN I HKRP.I-Rr OSHORX. 



It may he said, withtrnth, that science knows no boundaries 

 of i^-eoii^rapliy, [)olities, sect or race. Tliat if thei-e is to lier 

 credit, any characteristic of pornianence, it is tjiat of univer- 

 sality. P»ut atiniittin^tlii^^f'osmopoiitaii, universal characteris- 

 tic, we may airr<H» that in every country. State and commnnitv, 

 there uro scientific (piestions of special local importance and 

 interest, (piestions which, wjiile entei-iuLr into the science of 

 the world, haviuo- their relationship of rlependence upon, and 

 of support to, allied (piestions the work! over, are still so 

 local in their nature that only local interest is the warrant for 

 their special investiirJitiou. 



I deem it ininecessary tiierefore to otl'er any apoloi^y for 



fl'K.K. 1. A. S., 1S87-0.I 10 fDccmlHT ii, 18,80.1 



