intimate personal friend of Professor Agassiz, and Professor F. W. 
Putnam, of Harvard University, and remarks were made by Professor 
Addisson E. Verrill of Yale University and Dr. C. D. Walcott, Director 
of the U. S. Geological Survey; 
James Dwicut Dana, by Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President, Yale 
University, New Haven, Conn.; 
SPENCER FULLERTON Barrp, by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Commissioner, 
Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C.; 
JosEePH Leipy, by Professor William Keith Brooks, Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity, Baltimore, Md.; 
EpwarpD DRINKER Coreg, by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Curator, Depart- 
ment of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural 
History. 
The addresses as delivered were as follows: 
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 
By S. Were MircHe tt. 
We are here, as I understand, to unveil memorial busts of Americans 
distinguished in science, and I am honored by the privilege of speaking of 
Benjamin Franklin. This man, the father of American Science, was 
possessed of mental gifts unequalled in his day. Even yet he holds the 
highest place in the intellectual peerage of a land, where, in his time, 
men had few interests which were not material or political. But no 
man entirely escapes the despotic influences of his period. Thus in 
every life there are unfulfilled possibilities, and so it was that, para- 
phrasing Goldsmith, we may say that Franklin to country gave up what 
was meant for mankind, when with deep regret he resigned in middle 
life all hope of whole-souled devotion to science. When most productive, 
his scientific fertility was the more remarkable because of the other 
forms of dutiful activity which, in a life that knew no rest, left small 
leisure for those hours of quiet thought without which science is un- 
fruitful of result. 
There is a Hall of Fame not built by the hand of man. It is the 
memory of mankind. In many of its galleries this man’s bust could 
with justice be placed. Diplomacy would claim him as of her greatest. 
For him would be the laurel of administrative wisdom. Among states- 
men he would be welcomed. Who of the masters of English prose 
shall in that hall of fame be more secure of grateful remembrance, and 
who more certain of a place among men of science? 
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