180 DAVENPOKT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Davenport and Vicinity in the War of 1812, by W. C. Putnam. 



List of Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States of 

 America. 



Three cent piece of United States fractional currency. 



Fee Bill of Iowa and Illinois Central District Medical Association, 

 Jan. 11, 1877. 



List of members elected since the last published Proceedings. 



List of articles deposited in the corner-stone. 



Laying of the Corner-Stone. 



The corner-stone was then laid hy the Grand Master and liis 

 assistants with Masonic ceremonies. 



Song by Quintette. 



Address by Prof. T. S. Parvin.* 



The Professor remarked that all Masons and Templars were, or should 

 be, gentlemen, and observing a crowd of boys and girls among his 

 audience, he said : — 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys arid Girls, and congratulated the children 

 upon so interesting an occasion, and as they were the material out of 

 which the future ladies and gentlemen of Davenport were to be made, 

 he hoped in their progress and development into noble manhood and 

 womanhood, many of them would be found studying the sciences and 

 arts in the Academy whose corner-stone they had just seen laid with 

 masonic ceremonies. 



The Free Masons of to-day were the successors of those operative 

 masons of the middle ages, who associated together in guilds, traversed 

 Europe from the Adriatic to the Baltic seas and the German Ocean, and 

 erected those magnificent cathedrals, abbeys and castles, whose magnifi- 

 cence even in ruins commanded the admiration of a world unknown in 

 their day. 



AS speculative Masons, those present were so far connected in op- 

 erative work with those of the past that they with appropriate ceremo- 

 nies and historical surroundings, laid the corner-stones of public edifices 

 designed in their structure to promote the welfare of men. 



He had himself, he said, as an officer of the Grand Lodge of Masons, 

 on many occasions officiated in the laying of corner-stones of " temples 

 erected to the worship of the true God," and in this the Masons had 

 shown their reverence for the religion of their fathers. Of " Temples 

 of Justice," thus evincing the Masons' devotion to the principles of 

 right which should govern the social world. Of "• School Houses," man- 

 ifesting in such labors their interest in the youth of the nation, and 

 the means so wisely provided to fit them for honorable and useful citi- 

 zenship. 



*The address of Prof. Parvin was wholly extempore, as are all of his public efforts, and being 

 a very rapid speaker, we could catch only the leading topics of his remarks. 



