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I have thus in the broadest lines indicated what seemed to me some of the 

 evident duties of the Academy to the State, and what seemed to be opportunities 

 for increasing its value to the State. All are dependent upon the combined work 

 of many individuals. Few, if any, can be accomplished save through an organ- 

 ization such as this. 



I look over the secondary schools of the State and find that the teachers of 

 science, with few exceptions, are poorly paid; that science courses are, almost 

 without exception, arranged with reference to recitation schedules rather than to 

 logical sequence of subjects or intellectual capacity of pupils. That science is 

 assigned a value in the curriculum far less than language, or number, or form. 

 I find in our colleges, again, with few exceptions, that while it is not expected 

 that one man can teach both Latin and Gi*eek, it is expected often that one man 

 can teach Botany, and Zoology, and Physiology, and Chemistry, and Physics, 

 with other incidental subjects to fill his schedule. I find a prevailing belief that 

 the scientific specialist is a narrow man, when, by the very nature of things, he 

 must be, if a true specialist, one of the broadest of men ; a belief, in general,, 

 that science is impractical, theoretical, visionary. All this in spite of the fact 

 that far more than any other force has science directed — yes, dominated — the 

 progress of the past decades. I believe the cause of all this to be that science 

 has not been fairly dealt with by her devotees. That the scientist, absorbed in 

 the work of the laboratory, has too often forgotten his citizenship and neglected 

 to transfer to the State the truth which science had placed in his hands. Prima- 

 rily the objects of the Academy are inspirational, but secondarily, at least, and 

 certainly in its relations to the State, its objects should be eminently practical. 



If we fully grasp the idea of this relationship, which I have but imperfectly 

 outlined, the possibilities of science in Indiana are almost limitless. Its influence 

 will be increased, its constituency broadened, its achievements more splendid, and 

 the prophecy of a high place in science, born in the New Harmony days, will 

 have its realization in the effective and beneficent work of this Academy. 



The Evolution of the Map of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. By R. Ells- 

 worth Call. 



There probably does not exist elsewhere on earth so famous a natural feature 

 concerning which so little is definitely known as the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. 

 Its scientific exploration has been so hampered and guarded by a jealous fear of 

 rival interests that no one has been permitted to survey the great cavern and to 



